Support for a bimodal role for type II adrenal steroid receptors in spatial memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-46

  Conrad, Cheryl D ^a   Lupien, Sonia J ^b   McEwen, Bruce S ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Type I; Type II

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOSTEROID ANTAGONIST; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; SESAME SEED OIL;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032838203     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1998.3898     Document Type: Article

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