Progesterone can enhance consolidation and/or performance in spatial, object and working memory tasks in Long-Evans rats

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-286

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Llaneza, Danielle C ^a   Walf, Alicia A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; learning; Long Evans rat; memory; neurosteroid; progesterone; progestogen; Rattus norvegicus

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FITNESS; HORMONE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; STEROID;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 68349127389     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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