Estrogens, brain, and behavior: Lessons from knockout mouse models

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 218-228

  Hill, Rachel A ^a   Wah, Chin Boon ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Behavior; Estrogen; Estrogen receptors; Knockout; Neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN;

AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; STROKE;

EID: 67649659873     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1216275     Document Type: Review

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