Posttraining intrahippocampal estradiol injections enhance spatial memory in male rats: Interaction with cholinergic systems

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 626-632

  Packard, Mark G ^a   Kohlmaier, Joy R ^a   Alexander, Gerianne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; SCOPOLAMINE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029999430     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.3.626     Document Type: Article

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