Estrous cycle, pregnancy, and parity enhance performance of rats in object recognition or object placement tasks

Reproduction

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-115

  Paris, Jason J ^a   Frye, Cheryl A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DIESTRUS; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; MULTIPARA; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PARITY; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; PARITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

RATTUS;

EID: 47249128235     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0512     Document Type: Article

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