Antidepressant-like effects of essential oil and asarone, a major essential oil component from the rhizome of Acorus tatarinowii

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 589-594

  Han, Ting ^b   Han, Ping ^a   Peng, Wei ^c   Wang, Xiao Ru ^d  

^a SHENZHEN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Araceae; Depression; Forced swimming test; GC MS; Open field test; Shi Chang Pu; Tail suspension test; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ACORUS TATARINOWII EXTRACT; ALPHA ASARONE; BETA ASARONE; BETA BISABOLOL; BETA ELEMENE; CAMPHOR; ELEMICINE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA ASARONE; IMIPRAMINE; METHYL ISO EUGENOL; PLANT EXTRACT; SANTALENE; SHYOBUNONE; TERPINE 4 OL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACORUS TATARINOWII; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DETERMINATION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RHIZOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACORUS; ANIMALS; ANISOLES; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; IMIPRAMINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; OILS, VOLATILE; RHIZOME; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

ACORUS GRAMINEUS; ACORUS TATARINOWII; ANIMALIA; ARACEAE;

EID: 84876526941     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13880209.2012.751616     Document Type: Article

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