Estrogen replacement improves spatial reference memory and increases hippocampal synaptophysin in aged female mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 547-558

  Frick, Karyn M ^a   Fernandez, S M ^a   Bulinski, S C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; ELISA; Estradiol; Hippocampus; Morris water maze; Neocortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; SESAME SEED OIL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; WATER;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYMPTOM; SYNAPTOSOME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SIZE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UTERUS;

EID: 0037146708     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00377-9     Document Type: Article

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