Age dependent differences in the regulation of hippocampal steroid hormones and receptor genes: Relations to motivation and cognition in male rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 376-384

  Meyer, K ^a,b   Korz, V ^b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Behavioral Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Learning; Male estrogen; Memory; Motivation; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA GENE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HIPPOCAMPUS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84872841148     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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