II. Cognitive performance of middle-aged female rats is influenced by capacity to metabolize progesterone in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus

Brain Research

Volumn 1379, Issue , 2011, Pages 149-163

  Paris, Jason J ^a   Walf, Alicia A ^a   Frye, Cheryl A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Reductase; Allopregnanolone; Amygdala; Estropause; Memory; Menopause

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDITIONING; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEAR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; RAT; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

RATTUS;

EID: 79952312130     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.10.099     Document Type: Article

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