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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03679-x
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- German Research Foundation [DFG SO 952/6-1]
- SFB 'Crossmodal Learning' [TRR 169]
- BMBF [01GQ1003]
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In animals, 17-beta-estradiol (E2) enhances hippocampal plasticity in a dose-dependent, monotonically increasing manner, but this relationship can also exhibit an inverted U-shaped function. To investigate E2's dose-response function in the human hippocampus, we pharmacologically increased E2 levels in 125 naturally cycling women (who were in their lowhormone menstruation phase) to physiological (equivalent to menstrual cycle peak) and supraphysiological (equivalent to levels during early pregnancy) concentrations in a placebocontrolled design. Twenty-four hours after first E2 intake, we measured brain activity during encoding of neutral and negative pictures and then tested recognition memory 24 h after encoding. Here we report that E2 exhibits both a monotonically increasing relationship with hippocampal activity as well as an inverted U-shaped relationship, depending on the hippocampal region. Hippocampal activity exhibiting a U-shaped relationship inflects at supraphysiological E2 levels, suggesting that while E2 within physiological ranges stimulates hippocampal activity, supraphysiological ranges show opposite effects.
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