Intrahippocampal muscimol shifts learning strategy in gonadally intact young adult female rats

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 150-158

  McElroy, Molly W ^a   Korol, Donna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTROGEN; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GABA AGONISTS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OVARY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA;

EID: 17144411821     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.86205     Document Type: Article

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