Reproductive experience modifies the effects of estradiol on learning and memory bias in female rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 418-423

  Hussain, Dema ^a   Hoehne, Alexandra ^a   Woodside, Barbara ^a   Brake, Wayne G ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Learning; Multiple memory systems; Parity; T maze

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84875052810     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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