Brain region-specific reduction in c-Fos expression associated with an anxiolytic effect of yokukansan in rats

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-102

  Shoji, Hirotaka ^a,b   Mizoguchi, Kazushige ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiolytic effect; c Fos; Kampo medicine; Rat; Restraint stress; Yokukansan

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE; KAMPO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; YOKUKANSAN EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STRESS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANXIOLYTIC EFFECT; C-FOS; KAMPO MEDICINE; RAT; RESTRAINT STRESS; YOKUKANSAN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICINE, KAMPO; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 84882276222     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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