Effects of a chicken extract on food-deprived activity stress in rats.
A water-soluble chicken extract is popularly consumed as a traditional health food. The studies made revealed that it could increase the survival time and inhibit the increase of locomotor activity in rats loaded with food-deprived activity stress. The mechanism for this might be related to an elevation of the brain histamine level, and the active ingredient, carnosine, might contribute to this effect.
Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Yan-Qing
YQ
Lü
Rong-Rong
RR
He
Hiroshi
H
Watanabe
Keiich
K
Abe
Eiko
E
Sakurai
Kazuhiko
K
Yanai
Hiroshi
H
Kurihara
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D002645:Chickens; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology*; D006632:Histamine / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000187:drug effects*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism
D006632:Histamine