Effects of gonadectomy and hormone replacement on a spontaneous novel object recognition task in adult male rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 244-252

  Aubele, T ^a,d   Kaufman, R ^b   Montalmant, F ^c   Kritzer, M F ^d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Croton Harmon High School   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Discrimination learning; Estrogen; Perirhinal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GONADECTOMY; HABITUATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OPEN FIELD TEST; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHAM PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GONADAL HORMONES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 45449091329     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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