Estradiol decreases anxiety behavior and enhances inhibitory avoidance and gestational stress produces opposite effects

Stress

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-260

  Walf, Alicia A ^a   Frye, Cheryl A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Depression; Estrogen; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Learning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; SILASTIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LATENT PERIOD; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CORTICOSTERONE; DRUG IMPLANTS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34447135530     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00958970701220416     Document Type: Article

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