Progestogens influence cognitive processes in aging

Future Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1215-1231

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

20ALPHA DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYDIONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TACRINE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LEARNING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AFFECT; AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; NEUROGENESIS; PROGESTINS; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77953368934     PISSN: 17568919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/fmc.09.104     Document Type: Review

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