Estrogen affects performance of ovariectomized rats in a two-choice water-escape working memory task

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-65

  O'Neal, Margaret F ^a   Means, Larry W ^a   Poole, Max C ^b   Hamm, Robert J ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; DMTS; Emotion; Estradurin; Estrogen; Memory; Polyestradiol phosphate; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; POLYESTRADIOL PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029993790     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4530(95)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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