High-fat diet impairs spatial memory and hippocampal intrinsic excitability and sex-dependently alters circulating insulin and hippocampal insulin sensitivity

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Underwood, Erica L ^a   Thompson, Lucien T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

AHP; CA1; Diabetes; Glucose regulation; High fat diet; Hippocampal excitability; Sex differences; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957827737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13293-016-0060-3     Document Type: Article

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