Sauroxine impairs the memory retention in step-down test.

VALLEJO M,; ORTEGA G,; CARLINI V,; CABRERA J,; RUBIALES S,; AGNESE, M.

São Paulo, Brasil

Simposio; XX Symposium of Brazilian Medicinal Plants and X Internacional Congress of Ethnopharmacology.; 2008

Sauroine and sauroxine (Sx) are two of the majority alkaloids of the H. saururus alkaloid extract (AE). We demonstrated that AE increases the memory retention in the step-down test as well as sauroine being therefore one of the responsible alkaloids for the activity proved by AE. In this opportunity the Sx effects on memory retention were assayed.