No effect of different estrogen receptor ligands on cognition in adult female monkeys

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 448-456

  Lacreuse, Agnès ^a   Wilson, Mark E ^b   Herndon, James G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; DPN; Hormonal replacement therapy; Macaque; Memory; PPT; Selective estrogen receptor modulator

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; LIGAND; OIL; PROPIONITRILE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; PROPIONATES; PYRAZOLES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 58649084594     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.11.018     Document Type: Article

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