Prenatal cocaine exposure affects the acoustic startle response in adult rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 83-90

  Hughes, Harry E ^a   Donohue, Lynn M ^a   Dow Edwards, Diana L ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle reflex; Amphetamine; Cocaine; Development; Rat

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0029919903     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(96)00175-1     Document Type: Article

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