Acute genistein treatment mimics the effects of estradiol by enhancing place learning and impairing response learning in young adult female rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 491-499

  Pisani, Samantha L ^a   Neese, Steven L ^a   Doerge, Daniel R ^b   Helferich, William G ^a   Schantz, Susan L ^a   Korol, Donna L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Estrogen receptor beta; Genistein; Memory systems; Place learning; Response learning

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GENISTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; VAGINA SMEAR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENISTEIN; LEARNING; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84867638796     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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