Acute progesterone treatment impairs spatial working memory in intact male and female rats

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 1 SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Wei Lun ^a   Luine, Victoria N ^a,b   Zhou, Luyi ^b   Wu, Hui Bing ^a   Weierstall, Karen M ^a   Jenab, Shirzad ^a   Quiñones Jenab, Vanya ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Non spatial memory; Object recognition; Sex differences; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; SESAME SEED OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FISCHER 344 RAT; MEMORY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SESAME OIL;

EID: 80053178295     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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