Chronic fluoxetine suppresses circulating estrogen and the enhanced spatial learning of estrogen-treated ovariectomized rats

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1241-1249

  Taylor, George T ^a   Farr, Susan ^a,b   Klinga, Klaus ^c   Weiss, Juergen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Fluoxetine; Serotonin; Spatial memory; SSRI

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INHIBITION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOWN-REGULATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 3543130765     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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