Effects of LHRH on avoidance conditioning in normally cycling and ovariectomized female rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 221-228

  Mora, Sergio ^a   Dussaubat, Nelson ^a   Díaz Véliz, Gabriela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Avoidance conditioning; Estradiol; Estrous cycle; LHRH; Motor responses; Ovariectomy

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; DRUG EFFECT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031737015     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(98)00082-3     Document Type: Article

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