A role for hippocampal actin rearrangement in object placement memory in female rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 284-290

  Nelson, Britta S ^a   Witty, Christine F ^a   Williamson, Elizabeth A ^a   Daniel, Jill M ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin rearrangement; Cofilin; Estrogens; Latrunculin A; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CHOLESTEROL; COFILIN; ESTRADIOL; LATRUNCULIN A;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ACTIN REARRANGEMENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; OBJECT PLACEMENT MEMORY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; DENDRITIC SPINES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; THIAZOLIDINES;

EID: 84868327409     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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