Medicinal plants possess sedative and anxiolytic effect with emphasis on their mechanisms of action
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Thi-Qar, Iraq.
Review Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021, 17(03), 061–077.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2021.17.3.0351
Publication history:
Received on 01 November 2021; revised on 10 December 2021; accepted on 12 December 2021
Abstract:
Insomnia and anxiety are worldwide medical problems. Plant extracts possessed sedative and anxiolytic effect via different mechanisms included interactions with Na+ channels, γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptors, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and chatecholamines. In the current review, Web Science, PubMed, Scopus and Science Direct, were searched to investigate the plants with sedative and anxiolytic effects
Keywords:
Insomnia; Anxiety; Sedative; Anxiolytic; Medicinal Plants
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