Biological sex influences learning strategy preference and muscarinic receptor binding in specific brain regions of prepubertal rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 313-322

  Grissom, Elin M ^a   Hawley, Wayne R ^a   Hodges, Kelly S ^b   Fawcett Patel, Jessica M ^b   Dohanich, Gary P ^a,b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Cholinergic; Dorsolateral striatum; Hippocampus; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSOLATERAL STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL ROOT; WATER MAZE TEST;

BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CHOLINERGIC; DORSOLATERAL STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; SEX DIFFERENCES;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PROTEIN BINDING; QUINUCLIDINYL BENZILATE; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRITIUM;

EID: 84875521768     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22085     Document Type: Article

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