Estrogen modulates sexually dimorphic contextual fear conditioning and hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 888, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 356-365

  Gupta, Rishi R ^a   Sen, Srijan ^b   Diepenhorst, Lisa L ^a   Rudick, Charles N ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Long term petentiation; Rat

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIKE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROSHOCK; ESTROGENS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035847255     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)03116-4     Document Type: Article

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