Safranal enhances non-rapid eye movement sleep in pentobarbital-treated mice

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 623-630

  Liu, Zheng ^a   Xu, Xin Hong ^a   Liu, Tian Ya ^a,b   Hong, Zong Yuan ^b   Urade, Yoshihiro ^c   Huang, Zhi Li ^a   Qu, Wei Min ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WANNAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mice; NREM Sleep; Pentobarbital; Safranal; VLPO

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; HYPNOTIC AGENT; PENTOBARBITAL; PROTEIN C FOS; SAFRANAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPNOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SLEEP; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TUBEROMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CYCLOHEXENES; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PENTOBARBITAL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; TERPENES;

EID: 84864765560     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-5949.2012.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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