Estradiol to aged female or male mice improves learning in inhibitory avoidance and water maze tasks

Brain Research

Volumn 1036, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 101-108

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Rhodes, Madeline E ^a   Dudek, Bruce ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Memory

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; OIL;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 13844255035     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.12.014     Document Type: Article

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