Ovarian hormones modulate social recognition in female rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 247-250

  Spiteri, Thierry ^a   Ågmo, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Habituation dishabituation paradigm; Memory efficiency; Progesterone; Social recognition

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67649491076     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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