Effects of inhaled lavender essential oil on stress-loaded animals: Changes in anxiety-related behavior and expression levels of selected mRNAs and proteins

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1539-1544

  Takahashi, Mizuho ^a   Yoshino, Akiharu ^a   Yamanaka, Ayako ^a   Asanuma, Chihiro ^a   Satou, Tadaaki ^a   Hayashi, Shinichiro ^b   Masuo, Yoshinori ^a   Sadamoto, Kiyomi ^a   Koike, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Green Flask Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiolytic like effect; Biomarkers; Expression analysis; Immunohistochemical staining; Lavandula officinalis; RT PCR; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GALACTOKINASE; LAVENDER OIL; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EMOTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRESS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; WATER IMMERSION;

EID: 84869850796     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1200701132     Document Type: Article

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