Transitional versus surgical menopause in a rodent model: Etiology of ovarian hormone loss impacts memory and the acetylcholine system

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4248-4259

  Acosta, Jazmin I ^a   Mayer, Loretta ^b   Talboom, Joshua S ^a   Tsang, Candy Wing S ^a   Smith, Constance J ^b   Enders, Craig K ^a   Bimonte Nelson, Heather A ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA ALZHEIMER S CONSORTIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 VINYLCYCLOHEXENE DIEPOXIDE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SCOPOLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPATIAL MEMORY; UTERUS WEIGHT; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CYCLOHEXENES; FEMALE; GONADAL HORMONES; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 69249121724     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1802     Document Type: Article

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