Manipulation of prenatal hormones and dietary phytoestrogens during adulthood after the sexually dimorphic expression of visual spatial memory

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Lund, Trent D ^a   Lephart, Edwin D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUTAMIDE; OIL; PHYTOESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; ANTIANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIET; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRENATAL PERIOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SOYBEAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRILIZATION; VISUAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELEMENTAL DIET; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; FOOD, FORMULATED; HORMONES; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOESTROGENS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0035789198     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-2-21     Document Type: Article

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