Perinatal exposure to genistein, a soy phytoestrogen, improves spatial learning and memory but impairs passive avoidance learning and memory in offspring

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 40-46

  Kohara, Yumi ^a   Kuwahara, Rika ^b   Kawaguchi, Shinichiro ^b   Jojima, Takeshi ^a   Yamashita, Kimihiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior; Central nervous system; Genistein; Isoflavone; Non monotonic dose response; Perinatal exposure

Indexed keywords

GENISTEIN; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EMOTIONALITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING CURVE; LOCOMOTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; REARING; REWARD; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; STEP-THROUGH PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; EMOTION; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENISTEIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYTOESTROGENS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897442786     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.03.006     Document Type: Article

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