Postnatal choline supplementation in preweanling mice: Sexually dimorphic behavioral and neurochemical effects

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1387-1392

  Ricceri, Laura ^a,b   Berger Sweeney, Joanne ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEANING;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHOLINE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032438660     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.6.1387     Document Type: Article

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