Effects of ovariectomy and calcium deficiency on learning and memory of eight-arm radial maze in middle-aged female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 207-216

  Sato, Tomoaki ^a   Teramoto, Toyonori ^a   Tanaka, Koh Ichi ^a   Ohnishi, Yoshiko ^a   Irifune, Masahiro ^b   Nishikawa, Takashige ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium deficient; Learning; Memory; Ovariectomy; Radial maze; Rat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ESTROGEN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; DECISION MAKING; DIET; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENDER; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037602049     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00010-X     Document Type: Article

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