Factors influencing the cognitive and neural effects of hormone treatment during aging in a rodent model

Brain Research

Volumn 1514, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-49

  Chisholm, Nioka C ^a,b   Juraska, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Estradiol; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Medroxyprogesterone; Memory; Menopause; Prefrontal cortex; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; OPIATE PEPTIDE; PROGESTERONE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL THERAPY; MAZE TEST; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE MEMORY; TREATMENT DURATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84878478034     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.02.020     Document Type: Article

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