Exposure to prenatal nicotine transiently increases neuronal nicotinic receptor subunit α7, α4 and β2 messenger RNAs in the postnatal rat brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1151-1161

  Shacka, J J ^a   Robinson, S E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuronal nicotinic receptor; Nicotine; Postnatal development; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEURONS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031982233     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00564-2     Document Type: Article

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