Influence of sex and female hormones on nicotine-induced changes in locomotor activity in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 179-187

  Kanyt L ^a,b   Stolerman, I P ^b   Chandler, C J ^b   Saigusa, T ^b   Pögün, Ş ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Locomotor activity; Nicotine; Ovariectomy; Progesterone; Sex

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; NICOTINE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRATUMORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NICOTINE; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032961347     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(98)00140-3     Document Type: Article

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