Environmental enrichment reduces the mnemonic and neural benefits of estrogen

Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 459-471

  Gresack, J E ^a   Frick, K M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; environment; estradiol; hippocampus; memory consolidation; synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLODEXTRIN; ESTRADIOL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; ENVIRONMENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; OVARIECTOMY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 4644261146     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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