Progesterone facilitates the acquisition of avoidance learning and protects against subcortical neuronal death following prefrontal cortex ablation in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 99-106

  Asbury, E Trey ^a   Fritts, Mary E ^a   Horton, James E ^b   Isaac, Walter L ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance learning; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mediodorsal thalamic nucleus; Neuroprotection; Progesterone; Striatum; Subcortical degeneration

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGESTERONE; RATS; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032401798     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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