A developmental analysis of clonidine's effects on cardiac rate and ultrasound production in infant rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 186-193

  Blumberg, Mark S ^a   Sokoloff, Greta ^a   Kent, Kristen J ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Autonomic nervous system; Cardiac rate; Cardiovascular; Clonidine; Development; Infant; Rat; Separation distress; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRADYCARDIA; CLONIDINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHOLYTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034033856     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(200004)36:3<186::AID-DEV2>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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