Estradiol treatment in preadolescent females enhances adolescent spatial memory and differentially modulates hippocampal region-specific phosphorylated ERK labeling

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 528, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-119

  Wartman, Brianne C ^a   Keeley, Robin J ^a   Holahan, Matthew R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Estrogen; PERK1 2; Reference memory; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ADOLESCENCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION; LATENT PERIOD; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84867694809     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.09.018     Document Type: Article

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