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http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/23718| Title: | Anti-stress activity of Indian Hypericum perforatum L. |
| Authors: | Kumar, Vikas Singh, P N Bhattacharya, SK |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2001 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Indian Hypericum perforatum (IHp) was investigated on a 14-day mild, unpredictable and inescapable foot shock stress (FSS) induced perturbations in behaviour (depression), suppressed male sexual behaviour and cognitive dysfunction in albino rats. Gastric ulceration, and adrenal gland and spleen weights, were also used as the stress indices. Panax ginseng (PG) was used as the standard adaptogenic agent for comparison. FSS induced marked gastric ulceration, significant increase in adrenal gland weight with concomitant decrease in spleen weight. Chronic stress also suppressed male sex ual behaviour, induced behavioural depress ion (Porsolt’s swim despair test and learned helplessness test) and cognitive dysfunction (attenuated retention of learning in active and passive avoidance tests). All these FSS induced perturbations were attenuated dose dependently by IHp (100 and 200 mg/kg, po) and PG (100 mg/kg, po). The results indicate that IHp has significant anti stress activity, qualitatively comparable to PG, against a variety of behavioural and physiological perturbations induced by chronic stress, which has been proposed to be a better indicator of clinical stress than acute stress, and may indicate adaptogenic activity. |
| Page(s): | 344-349 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1009 (Online); 0019-5189 (Print) |
| Appears in Collections: | IJEB Vol.39(04) [April 2001] |
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