Estrogen modulates place learning through estrogen receptors in the hippocampus

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 336-343

  Zurkovsky, Lilia ^a   Brown, Stephanie L ^a   Korol, Donna L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antiestrogen; Estradiol; Female; ICI 182,780; Learning strategy; Memory systems; Spatial; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 33748918577     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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