Spatial working memory and hippocampal size across pregnancy in rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 86-95

  Galea, Liisa A M ^a   Ormerod, Brandi K ^a   Sampath, Sharadh ^a   Kostaras, Xanthoula ^a   Wilkie, Donald M ^a   Phelps, Maria T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0034060493     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1560     Document Type: Article

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