Dentate gyrus destruction and spatial learning impairment after corticosteroid removal in young and middle‐aged rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-15

  Conrad, Cheryl D ^a   Roy, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

adrenalectomy; behavior; granule cells; memory

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENALECTOMY; AGING; ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; POTASSIUM; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; SODIUM; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0028918275     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.450050103     Document Type: Article

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