Estrogens and age-related memory decline in rodents: what have we learned and where do we go from here?

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Published in Horm Behav on September 16, 2008

Authors

Karyn M Frick1

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1: Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. karyn.frick@yale.edu

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