Impairment of spatial learning by estradiol treatment in female mice is attenuated by estradiol exposure during development

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 693-698

  Imwalle, D Bradley ^a   Bateman, Heather L ^a   Wills, Aileen ^a   Honda, Shin Ichiro ^b   Harada, Nobuhiro ^b   Rissman, Emilie F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estrogen receptors; Hippocampus; Morris water maze; Phytoestrogens; Sex differences; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROMATASE; DIET; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHYTOESTROGENS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750963345     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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