Effect of ER-β gene disruption on estrogenic regulation of anxiety in female mice

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 300-306

  Tomihara, Kazuya ^a,b   Soga, Tomoko ^b   Nomura, Masayoshi ^b   Korach, Kenneth S ^c   Gustafsson, Jan Åke ^d   Pfaff, Donald W ^b   Ogawa, Sonoko ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavioral tests; Emotion; Fear; Knockout mouse; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ISOFLURANE; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG IMPLANT; EMOTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEAR; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARIECTOMY;

EID: 58249100041     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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