Estrous cycle and sex differences in performance on anxiety tasks coincide with increases in hippocampal progesterone and 3α,5α-THP

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 587-596

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Petralia, Sandra M ^a   Rhodes, Madeline E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Pregnan 3 ol 20 one (3 ,5 THP); Allopregnanol one; Hippocampus; Neurosteroid; Non genomic; Progestin

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GESTAGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0034490999     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(00)00392-0     Document Type: Article

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