Prenatal alcohol treatment attenuated postnatal Cocaine-Induced elevation of dopamine concentration in nucleus accumbens: A preliminary study

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-46

  Chen, Wei Jung A ^a   Maier, Susan E ^a   West, James R ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Brain; Cocaine; Dopamine; Nucleus accumbens; Pair feeding; Postnatal; Prenatal; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030900725     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(96)00188-2     Document Type: Article

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