Prenatal cocaine exposure produces long-term impairments in brain serotonin function in rat offspring

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 846, Issue , 1998, Pages 355-357

  Battaglia, George ^a   Cabrera Vera, Theresa M ^a   Van Kar, Louis D D E ^a   Garcia, Francisca ^a   Vicentic, Aleksandra ^a   Pinto, Wilfred ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031881118     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09753.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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