Perinatal cocaine reduces responsiveness to cocaine and causes alterations in exploratory behavior and visual discrimination in young-adult rats

Brain Research

Volumn 728, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-156

  Giustino, Arcangela ^a   Beckett, Simon ^b   Ballard, Theresa ^b   Cuomo, Vincenzo ^a   Marsden, Charles Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Maternal exposure; Novelty exploration test; Open field; Rat

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030605873     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00229-6     Document Type: Article

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