17β-Estradiol replacement in young, adult and middle-aged female ovariectomized rats promotes improvement of spatial reference memory and an antidepressant effect and alters monoamines and BDNF levels in memory- and depression-related brain areas

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-108

  Kiss, Ágata ^a   Delattre, Ana Márcia ^a   Pereira, Sofia I R ^a   Carolino, Ruither G ^b   Szawka, Raphael E ^b,c   Anselmo Franci, Janete A ^b   Zanata, Sílvio M ^a   Ferraz, Anete C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol therapy; Cognition; Depression; Hippocampal BDNF; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; MONOAMINE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MORRIS WATER MAZE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL REFERENCE MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TURNOVER TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ESTRADIOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; OVARIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SWIMMING;

EID: 82055191661     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.10.047     Document Type: Article

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