Chronic estradiol replacement to aged female rats reduces anxiety-like and depression-like behavior and enhances cognitive performance
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Chronic estradiol replacement to aged female rats reduces anxiety-like and depression-like behavior and enhances cognitive performance.
Decline in the ovarian steroid, estradiol (E(2)), with the menopause transition may influence cognitive and affective processing of older women and there is evidence that hormone replacement therapies (HRTs) with E(2)-mimetics may provide benefit in some, but not all, women. The parameters that play a role in determining whether the response to HRTs is positive are of interest. It may be that t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychoneuroendocrinology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0306-4530
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.01.004