Sex steroid hormones matter for learning and memory: Estrogenic regulation of hippocampal function in male and female rodents

Learning and Memory

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 472-493

  Frick, Karyn M ^a   Kim, Jaekyoon ^a   Tuscher, Jennifer J ^a   Fortress, Ashley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 3; TESTOSTERONE;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DENDRITIC SPINE; EPIGENETICS; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RODENTIA;

EID: 84942106437     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.037267.114     Document Type: Review

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