Continuous estrone treatment impairs spatial memory and does not impact number of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in the surgically menopausal middle-aged rat

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Engler Chiurazzi, Elizabeth B ^a,b   Talboom, Joshua S ^a,b   Braden, B Blair ^a,b   Tsang, Candy W S ^a,b   Mennenga, Sarah ^a,b   Andrews, Madeline ^a,b   Demers, Laurence M ^c   Bimonte Nelson, Heather A ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA ALZHEIMER S CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; Basal forebrain; Choline acetyltransferase; Estrogen; Estrone; Premarin; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); ESTRONE; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; OVARIECTOMY; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 84862253487     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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