Androgen administration to aged male mice increases anti-anxiety behavior and enhances cognitive performance

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1049-1061

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Edinger, Kassandra ^a   Sumida, Kanako ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

3 diol; Aging; Anxiety; Cognition; Senescent; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANDROSTANEDIOL; ESTRADIOL; SESAME SEED OIL; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEAR; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GONADECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHLORIDES; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORCHIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SYNAPTOSOMES;

EID: 40549129368     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301498     Document Type: Article

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