Estrogen enhances the retention of spatial reference memory in the open field tower task, but disrupts the expression of spatial memory following a novel start position

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 99, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-58

  Lipatova, Olga ^a   Toufexis, Donna J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Estrogen; Learning; Memory; Novelty; Retention

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84870891089     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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