Effects ofPhaeodactylum tricornutum and Dunaliella tertiolectaExtracts on the Central Nervous System
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Planta Medica
- Vol. 56 (02) , 152-157
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2006-960914
Abstract
We report the effects of aqueous extracts of the microalgae Dunaliella tertiolecta Butcher (Chlorophyceae) and Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin (Bacillariophyceae) on oxotremorin-induced cholinergic symptoms, amphetamine-induced hypermotility, pentylenetetrazole-induced convulsions, and Rota-rod test performance. Both extracts significantly reduced rectal temperature, spontaneous motor activity, and time on the Rota-rod and increased the number of mice falling off the rod before 180 s, but neither protected against pentylenetetrazole-induced convulsions or against oxotremorin-induced tremor, salivation, and diarrhoea.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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