Hormones
Experiments
Results
100
The primary hormone investigated in the experiments
What is Estradiol?
100
This measured the rats' memory and learning in each of the conditions.
What is cross-over latency and latency to find hidden platform?
100
When ERalpha and ERbeta activity are combined, the effects enhance this type of memory.
What is emotional memory?
200
SERM stands for ....
What is Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators
200
The two tasks used to investigate spatial and emotional memory.
What are the water maze task and inhibitory avoidance task?
200
When ERbeta activity occurs, it enhances this type of memory.
What is spatial memory?
300
The two estradiol receptor isoforms being tested.
What are 17 alpha estradiol and 17 beta estradiol?
300
This is administered when a rat crosses into the dark chamber in the inhibitory avoidance task.
What is a shock?
300
When ERalpha activity occurs, this behavior is modulated.
What is sexual receptivity?
400
The two ERbeta agonists investigated in this study.
What are coumestrol and DPN?
400
This is what rats are supposed to find in the water maze task.
What is a hidden platform?
400
This amount of 17 beta estradiol was found to be most effective at enhancing memory.
What is 10 milligrams?
500
Primary effects of activity at ERbeta.
What is spatial memory/learning?
500
Besides spatial memory and emotional memory, this was also investigated in the study.
What is sexual receptivity and motor behavior?
500
Rats administered this hormone 2 hours post-training showed no differences in memory compared to rats administered vehicle.
What is E2?
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