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Cheryl A. Frye is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with focused subfields including Behavioral Neuroscience, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Genetics, Social Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Stress Responses and Cortisol, Estrogen and related hormone effects, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Hormonal and reproductive studies, Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments, Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones, and Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies.

Cheryl A. Frye has published several papers, including:

  • Progesterone's Effects on Cognitive Performance of Male Mice Are Independent of Progestin Receptors but Relate to Increases in GABAA Activity in the Hippocampus and Cortex, 2021, Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Central Actions of 3α,5α-THP Involving NMDA and GABAA Receptors Regulate Affective and Sexual Behavior of Female Rats, 2020, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Progesterone Promotes Anti-Anxiety/Depressant-like Behavior and Trophic Actions of BDNF in the Hippocampus of Female Nuclear Progesterone Receptor, but Not 5α-Reductase, Knockout Mice, 2025, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Mating Enhances Expression of Hormonal and Trophic Factors in the Midbrain of Female Rats, 2020, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Their frequent coauthors include Vincent F. Lembo, Jennifer K. Torgersen, Alicia A. Walf, Amy S. Kohtz, and Don W. Cleveland.

Cheryl A. Frye has published in several venues with multiple works appearing in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers in Endocrinology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Epilepsy Research, and Current Sexual Health Reports.

Best Publications

  • The use of the elevated plus maze as an assay of anxiety-related behavior in rodents

    Alicia A Walf;Cheryl A Frye

  • A review and update of mechanisms of estrogen in the hippocampus and amygdala for anxiety and depression behavior.

    Alicia A Walf;Cheryl A Frye

  • Estrous cycle and sex differences in performance on anxiety tasks coincide with increases in hippocampal progesterone and 3α,5α-THP

    Cheryl A Frye;Sandra M Petralia;Madeline E Rhodes

  • Endocrine disrupters: a review of some sources, effects, and mechanisms of actions on behaviour and neuroendocrine systems

    C A Frye;E Bo;G Calamandrei;L Calzà

  • Withdrawal from 3alpha-OH-5alpha-pregnan-20-One using a pseudopregnancy model alters the kinetics of hippocampal GABAA-gated current and increases the GABAA receptor alpha4 subunit in association with increased anxiety.

    Sheryl S. Smith;Qi H. Gong;Xinshe Li;Maria H. Moran

  • Changes in progesterone metabolites in the hippocampus can modulate open field and forced swim test behavior of proestrous rats.

    Cheryl A. Frye;Alicia A. Walf

  • Estrus-associated decrements in a water maze task are limited to acquisition.

    Cheryl A. Frye

  • Estrogens and progestins enhance spatial learning of intact and ovariectomized rats in the object placement task.

    Cheryl A. Frye;Caryn K. Duffy;Alicia A. Walf

  • Testosterone increases analgesia, anxiolysis, and cognitive performance of male rats

    Cheryl A. Frye;Angela M. Seliga

  • Ovarian steroids enhance object recognition in naturally cycling and ovariectomized, hormone-primed rats.

    Alicia A. Walf;Madeline E. Rhodes;Cheryl A. Frye

  • ERbeta-selective estrogen receptor modulators produce antianxiety behavior when administered systemically to ovariectomized rats.

    Alicia A Walf;Cheryl A Frye

  • Responses to laboratory psychosocial stress in postpartum women.

    Margaret Altemus;Laura S. Redwine;Yeung-mei Leong;Cheryl A. Frye

  • Testosterone's Analgesic, Anxiolytic, and Cognitive-Enhancing Effects May Be Due in Part to Actions of Its 5α-Reduced Metabolites in the Hippocampus.

    Kassandra L. Edinger;Cheryl A. Frye

  • The neurosteroids, progesterone and 3α,5α-THP, enhance sexual motivation, receptivity, and proceptivity in female rats

    Cheryl A. Frye;Laura E. Bayon;Neena K. Pursnani;Robert H. Purdy

  • Differential effects of antiepileptic drugs on sexual function and hormones in men with epilepsy

    A. G. Herzog;F. W. Drislane;D. L. Schomer;P. B. Pennell

  • Estrogen and/or progesterone administered systemically or to the amygdala can have anxiety-, fear-, and pain-reducing effects in ovariectomized rats.

    Cheryl A. Frye;Alicia A. Walf

  • Behavioral effects of 3α-androstanediol I: modulation of sexual receptivity and promotion of GABA-stimulated chloride flux

    C. A. Frye;K. R. Van Keuren;M. S. Erskine

  • The role of neurosteroids and non-genomic effects of progestins and androgens in mediating sexual receptivity of rodents.

    Cheryl A Frye

  • Antidepressant effects of ERβ-selective estrogen receptor modulators in the forced swim test

    Alicia A Walf;Madeline E Rhodes;Cheryl A Frye

  • Administration of estrogen receptor beta-specific selective estrogen receptor modulators to the hippocampus decrease anxiety and depressive behavior of ovariectomized rats.

    Alicia A Walf;Cheryl A Frye

  • Proestrous compared to diestrous wildtype, but not estrogen receptor beta knockout, mice have better performance in the spontaneous alternation and object recognition tasks and reduced anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus and mirror maze

    Alicia A. Walf;Carolyn Koonce;Kevin Manley;Cheryl A. Frye

  • The neurosteroid 3α,5α-THP has antiseizure and possible neuroprotective effects in an animal model of epilepsy

    C.A. Frye

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl M. McCormick
Cheryl M. McCormick Brock University
Drew A. Anderson
Drew A. Anderson University at Albany, State University of New York

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