Sex-specific effects of gonadectomy and hormone treatment on acquisition of a 12-arm radial maze task by Sprague Dawley rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3176-3183

  Gibbs, Robert B ^a   Johnson, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 44249088061     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-1645     Document Type: Article

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