[HTML][HTML] Plantas medicinais e seus constituintes bioativos: Uma revisão da bioatividade e potenciais benefícios nos distúrbios da ansiedade em modelos animais

FCF Sousa, CTV Melo, MCO Citó, FHC Félix… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2008 - SciELO Brasil
A procura de novos agentes terapêuticos provenientes de plantas medicinais para doenças
psiquiátricas tem progredido significativamente na última década. Isso reflete num grande …

Intracerebroventricular injection of l-arginine induces sedative and hypnotic effects under an acute stress in neonatal chicks

R Suenaga, S Tomonaga, H Yamane, I Kurauchi… - Amino acids, 2008 - Springer
l-Arginine participates in many important and diverse biochemical reactions associated with
the normal physiology of the organism. In the present study, we investigated the effect of …

Euphorbia hirta reverses chronic stress-induced anxiety and mediates its action through the GABAA receptor benzodiazepine receptor-Cl channel complex

H Anuradha, BN Srikumar… - Journal of Neural …, 2008 - Springer
Chronic stress is known to result in impairment of learning and memory and precipitate
several affective disorders including depression and anxiety. Drugs of natural origin are …

Central l-arginine reduced stress responses are mediated by l-ornithine in neonatal chicks

R Suenaga, H Yamane, S Tomonaga, M Asechi… - Amino Acids, 2008 - Springer
Recently, we observed that central administration of l-arginine attenuated stress responses
in neonatal chicks, but the contribution of nitric oxide (NO) to this response was minimal. The …

Relationships between the sedative and hypnotic effects of intracerebroventricular administration of L-serine and its metabolites, pyruvate and the derivative amino …

M Asechi, I Kurauchi, S Tomonaga, H Yamane… - Amino Acids, 2008 - Springer
Intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of L-serine was shown to have sedative and hypnotic
effects on neonatal chicks under acute stressful conditions. To clarify the central mechanism …

ANIMAL MODELS OF ANXIETY: EXAMINING THEIR

JE Warnick, KJ Sufka - Behavioral models in stress research, 2008 - books.google.com
Psychopharmacology is a multi-disciplinary field that relies on the utilization of many diverse
experimental techniques [65]. However, throughout the discipline's history, the predominant …