Effects of acute and chronic cocaine administration on EEG and behaviour in intact and castrated male and intact and ovariectomized female rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-50

  Van Luijtelaar, E L J M ^a   Dirksen, R ^a   Vree, T B ^a   Van Haaren, F ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic treatment; Cocaine; Gender; Rats; Sex hormones; Spike wave discharges; Stereotype behaviour; WAG Rij strain

Indexed keywords

BENZOYLECGONINE; COCAINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HORMONE ACTION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIKE WAVE; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 0029877520     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0361-9230(96)00005-6     Document Type: Article

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