Preweaning experience as a modifier of prenatal drug effects in rats and mice - A review

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-123

  Clausing, Peter ^a   Mothes, Henning K ^b   Opitz, Bernard ^c  

^a LAB Research Denmark   (Denmark)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus St Elisabeth und St Barbara   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mice; Prenatal drug effects; Preweaning experience; Rats

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; WEANING;

EID: 0033960009     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(99)00051-3     Document Type: Article

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