Stimulus contingencies that permit classical conditioning of opioid activity in the rat fetus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1086-1097

  Robinson, Scott R ^b   Smotherman, William P ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CONDITIONING; FETUS; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030731935     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.5.1086     Document Type: Article

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