Learning impairment caused by intra-CA1 microinjection of testosterone increases the number of astrocytes

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-37

  Emamian, Shahla ^a,b   Naghdi, Nasser ^b   Sepehri, Houri ^a   Jahanshahi, Mehrdad ^c   Sadeghi, Yousef ^d   Choopani, Samira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Astroglia; Hippocampus; Rat; Spatial learning; Testosterone enanthate

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; TRAINING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77951929697     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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