Sex differences in object-in-place memory of adult rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 457-464

  Cost, Katherine Tombeau ^a   Williams Yee, Zari N ^a   Fustok, Judy N ^a   Dohanich, Gary P ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Object location; Object recognition; Object in place; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT IN PLACE MEMORY; OPEN FIELD TEST; OVARIECTOMY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGE; ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG EFFECT; LONG EVANS RAT; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84875485433     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028363     Document Type: Article

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