1. [Hypnotic effect of Chinese materia medica Cynanchum chinese in mice].
- Author
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Peng XD, Yan QS, Wang R, Yang WD, and Peng JZ
- Subjects
- Animals, Central Nervous System drug effects, Central Nervous System physiology, Chloroform, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Synergism, Drugs, Chinese Herbal isolation & purification, Drugs, Chinese Herbal toxicity, Female, Hypnotics and Sedatives isolation & purification, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred ICR, Pentobarbital pharmacology, Plants, Medicinal chemistry, Random Allocation, Water, Cynanchum chemistry, Drugs, Chinese Herbal pharmacology, Hypnotics and Sedatives pharmacology, Motor Activity drug effects, Sleep drug effects
- Abstract
Objective: To study the central pharmacological effect of the water and chloroform-extract compounds from C. chinese in mice., Method: The independent activity test and the hypnotic synergism test by sub-threshold hypnotic dosage of pentobarbital were employed to evaluate the central pharmacological effect of the extract-compounds, and the minimal neurotoxicity was evaluated by the rotorod test., Result: the extract-compounds exhibited significant dose-related inhibition effect of the spontaneous motor activity in mice after intraperitoneal administration. And the two extract-compounds promoted the hypnotic effect by sub-threshold hypnotic dosage administration of pentobarbital, and produced ED50 value of 2.36 g kg (-1) and 0.75 g kg(-1), respectively. Also, both extract-compounds showed no neurotoxicity in the experiment., Conclusion: The extract compounds from C. chinese showed inhibitional effect on CNS.
- Published
- 2007