Cocaine exposure during the brain growth spurt failed to produce cerebellar Purkinje cell loss in rat pups

Teratology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 145-151

  Chen, Wei Jung A ^a   McAlhany Jr , Robert E ^a   Maier, Susan E ^a   West, James R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; TERATOGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MORTALITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; STEREOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; COCAINE; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; NARCOTICS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0029898274     PISSN: 00403709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9926(199603)53:3<145::AID-TERA1>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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