Estrogens and age-related memory decline in rodents: What have we learned and where do we go from here?

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-23

  Frick, Karyn M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estradiol; Hippocampus; Hormone therapy; Menopause; Mouse; Rat

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; FULVESTRANT; GESTAGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PHYTOESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; RALOXIFENE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TAMOXIFEN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENOPAUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; PROGESTINS; RATS; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 58149112403     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.08.015     Document Type: Review

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