Cocaethylene exposure during the brain growth spurt period: Brain growth restrictions and neurochemistry studies

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 220-229

  Chen, Wei Jung A ^a   West, James R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Brain development; Catecholamine; Cocaethylene; Cocaine; Indoleamine; Neuroteratogen; Rat

Indexed keywords

HOMOCOCAINE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TERATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030851463     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(97)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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