Post-training progesterone dose-dependently enhances object, but not spatial, memory consolidation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 174-180

  Harburger, Lauren L ^a   Pechenino, Angela S ^a   Saadi, Altaf ^a   Frick, Karyn M ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Morris water maze; Mouse; Non spatial memory; Object recognition; Progestin; Reference memory

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50549089323     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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