The neurosteroid allopregnanolone impairs object memory and contextual fear memory in male C57BL/6J mice

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 238-246

  Rabinowitz, Akiva ^a   Cohen, Sarah J ^a   Finn, Deborah A ^b,c   Stackman, Robert W ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Neurosteroid; Novelty; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ELTANOLONE; SEX HORMONE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTEXTUAL MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; OBJECT MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; FEAR; MICROINJECTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; GABA AGONISTS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROINJECTIONS; PREGNANOLONE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84902141312     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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