title: Inositol has behavioral effects with adaptation after chronic administration.
abstract: Inositol is a simple dietary polyol that serves as a precursor in important second messenger systems. Inositol in pharmacological doses has been reported recently to be therapeutic in depression, panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. We hereby report effects of inositol on the elevated plus maze model of anxiety. These results should allow development of new inositol analogs that could expand psychoactive drug development possibilities via second messenger manipulation.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Health Mental Health Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kotler
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Matar
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kofman
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Belmaker
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000187:drug effects*; D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000187:drug effects; D007274:Injections, Intraperitoneal; D007276:Injections, Intraventricular; D007294:Inositol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D007294:Inositol