Antidepressant-Like Effect of Lippia sidoides CHAM (Verbenaceae) Essential Oil and Its Major Compound Thymol in Mice

• Main Authors: Michele Sanford Rangel Parente (Author), Feliphy Rodrigues Custódio (Author), Nayara Araújo Cardoso (Author), Márcia Jordana Araújo Lima (Author), Tiago Sousa de Melo (Author), Maria Isabel Linhares (Author), Rafaelly Maria Pinheiro Siqueira (Author), Aristides Ávilo do Nascimento (Author), Francisco Eduardo Aragão Catunda Júnior (Author), Carla Thiciane Vasconcelos de Melo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Depression is a common disease affecting more than 300 million people worldwide. Since Lippia sidoides has shown central nervous system effects in previous works, we aimed to investigate the effect of L. sidoides essential oil and its major compound, thymol on a corticosterone-induced depression mod...