Estradiol or diarylpropionitrile administration to wild type, but not estrogen receptor beta knockout, mice enhances performance in the object recognition and object placement tasks.

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Published in Neurobiol Learn Mem on March 03, 2008

Authors

Alicia A Walf1, Carolyn J Koonce, Cheryl A Frye

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1: Department of Psychology, The University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, USA.

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