Experiment 635212
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Hypericum perforatum (CLUSIACEAE) |
| Citation | VORBACH,EU: HUBNER,WD: ARNOLDT,KH:. (1993). EFFECTIVENESS AND TOLERANCE OF THE HYPERICUM EXTRACT LI 160 IN COMPARISON WITH IMIPRAMINE. RANDOMIZED DOUBLE BLIND STUDY WITH 135 OUT-PATIENTS.. 12() |
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| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | IN A DOUBLE BLIND COMPARATIVE STUDY 135 DEPRESSIVE PATIENTS WERE TREATED IN 20 CENTRES. THE DOSAGE WAS 3 X 300 MG HYPERICUM EXTRACT LI 160 OR 3 X 25 MG IMIPRAMINE DAILY. THE TREATEMENT LASTED FOR SIX WEEKS. IN BOTH TREATMENT GROUPS A PARALLEL REDUCTION OF THE HAMILTON SCORE FROM 20.2 TO 8.8 (LI 160, N=67) OR FROM 19.4 TO 10.7 (IMIPRAMINE, N=68) AND THE TRANSFORMED D-S-POINT VALUES FROM 39.6 TO 27.2 (LI 160) AND 39.0 TO 29.2 (IMIPRAMINE) WERE FOUND. IN THE LI 160 GROUP FEWER AND MILDER SIDE EFFECTS WERE FOUND AS COMAPRED TO IMIPRAMINE. A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, LI-160, WAS USED. |
| Dose amount | 900.0 MG |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |