Immediate early gene expression to examine neuronal activity following acute and chronic stressors in rat pups: Examination of neurophysiological alterations underlying behavioral consequences of prenatal cocaine exposure

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 895-902

  Goodwin, Gregory A ^a   Bliven, Tricia ^b   Kuhn, Cynthia ^c   Francis, Reynold ^c   Spear, Linda P ^b  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; C FOS; Chronic stress; Corticosterone; Footshock; Isolation; Locus coeruleus; Paraventricular nucleus; Periweanling rats; Prenatal cocaine; Supraoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; STRESS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030925880     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00615-4     Document Type: Article

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