Microinfusion of cocaine into the medial preoptic area or nucleus accumbens transiently impairs maternal behavior in the rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 377-390

  Vernotica, Ellen M ^b   Rosenblatt, Jay S ^b   Morrell, Joan I ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICROINJECTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032945901     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.2.377     Document Type: Article

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