Investigation of Changes in Anxiety and Learning Behavior During Oestrous Cycle in the Rat.
Objective: Ovarian steroids modulate brain mechanisms such as learning, memory and novel object recognition. However, the influence of oestrous cycle on the selection of behavioural strategies in response to novelty and to partial or complete fearful stimuli has not yet been studied. In this study,...
| Publicado en: | Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Sciences Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 1307 - 1314 |
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Turkiye Klinikleri
Oct2012
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