Estrogen receptor-selective agonists modulate learning in female rats in a dose- and task-specific manner

Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 292-303

  Pisani, Samantha L ^a   Neese, Steven L ^a,b   Katzenellenbogen, John A ^a   Schantz, Susan L ^a   Korol, Donna L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BALDWIN WALLACE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PHYTOESTROGEN; PRINABEREL; 1,3,5-TRIS(4-HYDROXYPHENYL)-4-PROPYL-1H-PYRAZOLE; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NITRILE; OXAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; WAY 200070;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONG EVANS RAT; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL LEARNING; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; OXAZOLES; PHENOLS; PROPIONATES; PYRAZOLES; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; SPATIAL LEARNING; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE;

EID: 84954471707     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1616     Document Type: Article

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