A Bacoside containing bacopa monnieri extract reduces both morphine hyperactivity plus the elevated striatal dopamine and serotonin turnover

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 758-763

  Rauf, Khalid ^a   Subhan, Fazal ^a   Sewell, Robert D E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacosides; dopamine; morphine hyperlocomotion; serotonin

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; BACOPA MONNIERI EXTRACT; BACOPASAPONIN C; BACOSIDE; BACOSIDE A; BACOSIDE A3; BACOSIDE II; BUTANOL; DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MORPHINE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPIATE ADDICTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BACOPA; BASAL GANGLIA; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GLYCOSIDES; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MORPHINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SAPONINS; SEROTONIN; TRITERPENES;

BACOPA MONNIERI; MUS;

EID: 84859882454     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3631     Document Type: Article

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