The effects of pregnancy, lactation, and primiparity on object-in-place memory of female rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 32-39

  Cost, Katherine Tombeau ^a   Lobell, Thomas D ^a   Williams Yee, Zari N ^a,b   Henderson, Sherryl ^c   Dohanich, Gary ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactation; Memory; Object in place; Pregnancy; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; OBJECT IN PLACE TASK; PREGNANCY; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEANING;

LACTATION; MEMORY; OBJECT-IN-PLACE; PREGNANCY; SPATIAL;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEAR; FEMALE; LACTATION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX RATIO; WEANING;

EID: 84890167671     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.10.012     Document Type: Article

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