Estrogen modulates sexually dimorphic contextual fear extinction in rats through estrogen receptor β

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1142-1150

  Chang, Yao Ju ^a   Yang, Chih Hao ^a   Liang, Ying Ching ^a   Yeh, Che Ming ^a   Huang, Chiung Chun ^a   Hsu, Kuei Sen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contextual fear conditioning; Estrogen; Estrogen receptor; Extinction; Hippocampus; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HORMONE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRUS; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROSHOCK; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NAD; OVARIECTOMY; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350675395     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20581     Document Type: Article

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