Serotonergic neurotoxicity of MDMA (Ecstasy) in the developing rat brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 965, Issue , 2002, Pages 373-380

  Meyer, Jerrold S ^a   Ali, Syed F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine; Brain; Ecstasy; MDMA; Neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036297999     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04179.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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