The progesterone-induced enhancement of object recognition memory consolidation involves activation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathways in the dorsal hippocampus

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 487-495

  Orr, Patrick T ^a,c   Rubin, Amanda J ^a,d   Fan, Lu ^a,e,f   Kent, Brianne A ^a,g   Frick, Karyn M ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERK MAPK; Hippocampus; Mouse; Object memory; Progesterone; Rapamycin; S6K; U0126

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROGESTERONE; S6 KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUTADIENES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES, 90-KDA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84859100570     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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