Rapid and acute effects of estrogen on time perception in male and female rats

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pleil, Kristen E ^a   Cordes, Sara ^b   Meck, Warren H ^c   Williams, L Christina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clock speed; Dopamine; Duration bisection; Interval timing; Sex differences; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; OIL; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PSYCHOMETRY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING;

EID: 82255182511     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00063     Document Type: Article

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