Estradiol improves cerebellar memory formation by activating estrogen receptor β

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 40, 2007, Pages 10832-10839

  Andreescu, Corina E ^a   Milojkovic, Bogdan A ^a   Haasdijk, Elize D ^a   Kramer, Piet ^a   De Jong, Frank H ^a   Krust, Andrée ^b   De Zeeuw, Chris I ^a,c   De Jeu, Marcel T G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Estrogen; Estrogen receptor ; Motor learning; Mutant mice; Neuronal plasticity

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CLIMBING FIBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL INHIBITION; OVARIECTOMY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PURKINJE CELLS; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35148844668     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2588-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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