Cocaethylene-induced kindling of seizure effects: Cross-specificity with cocaine

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 491-494

  Meehan, Susanne M ^a   Schechter, Martin D ^a  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaethylene; Cocaine; Kindling; Mice; Seizure

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; HOMOCOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG ABUSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; KINDLING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SENSITIZATION; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029975511     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(95)02275-9     Document Type: Article

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