Gestational cocaine and ethanol exposure alter spontaneous and cocaine-induced behavior in weanling rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 559-564

  Kunko, Paul M ^a,b   Wallace, Melisa J ^b   Robinson, Susan E ^b  

^a NIDA Addiction Research Center   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; chronic administration; cocaine; locomotion; open field; prenatal exposure; rat; stereotypy; teratolo gy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TERATOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COCAINE; DRINKING; EATING; ETHANOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0030479434     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00283-3     Document Type: Article

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