Pubertal immune challenge blocks the ability of estradiol to enhance performance on cognitive tasks in adult female mice

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1170-1177

  Ismail, Nafissa ^a,b   Blaustein, Jeffrey D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Hippocampus dependent tasks; Immune challenge; Puberty

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ENDOTOXIN; ESTRADIOL; SILASTIC; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNE CHALLENGE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMPLANTATION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MEMORY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84877926100     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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