tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Psychoimmunological effects of dioscorea in ovariectomized rats: role of anxiety level"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Psychoimmunological effects of dioscorea in ovariectomized rats: role of anxiety level. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access Psychoimmunological effects of dioscorea in ovariectomized rats role of anxiety level Ying-Jui Ho 1 Ching-Fu Wang1 Wen-Yu Hsu1 Ting Tseng1 Cheng- Chin Hsu2 Mei-Ding Kao3 and Yuan-Feen Tsai4 Address 1School of Psychology Chung Shan Medical University No. 110 Sec. 1 Chien-Kuo N. Rd. Tai-Chung City 402 Taiwan ROC 2School of Nutrition Chung Shan Medical University No. 110 Sec. 1 Chien-Kuo N. Rd. Tai-Chung City 402 Taiwan ROC 3Department of Food and Nutrition Providence University No. 200 Chung-Chi Rd. Tai-Chung City 43301 Taiwan ROC and 4Department of Physiology College of Medicine National Taiwan University No. 1 Sec. 1 Jen-Ai Rd. Taipei City 100 Taiwan ROC Email Ying-Jui Ho - yjho@ Ching-Fu Wang - wcf@ Wen-Yu Hsu - wyhsu@ Ting Tseng - blackunicorn1984@ Cheng-Chin Hsu - king@ Mei-Ding Kao - mdkao@ Yuan-Feen Tsai - yftsai@ Corresponding author Published 10 August 2007 Received II January 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6 21 doi 1744-859X-6-21 Accepted 10 August 2007 This article is available from http content 6 I 2I 2007 Ho et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Anxiety levels in rats are correlated with interleukin-2 IL-2 levels in the brain. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of dioscorea wild yam a Chinese medicine on emotional behavior and IL-2 levels in the brain of ovariectomized OVX rats. Methods One month after ovariectomy female Wistar rats were screened in the elevated plusmaze EPM test to measure anxiety levels and divided into low anxiety LA and high anxiety HA .