An update on the cognitive impact of clinically-used hormone therapies in the female rat: Models, mazes, and mechanisms

Brain Research

Volumn 1514, Issue , 2013, Pages 18-39

  Acosta, J I ^a,c   Hiroi, R ^a,c   Camp, B W ^a,c   Talboom, J S ^b,c   Bimonte Nelson, H A ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA ALZHEIMER S CONSORTIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Cognition; Estrogen; Hormone loss; Hormone therapy; Memory; Menopause; Progestogen

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANOVULATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BODY MASS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPIGENETICS; EPISODIC MEMORY; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENOPAUSE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FUNCTION; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE MEMORY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; STEROIDS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84878520903     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.01.016     Document Type: Review

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