The effects of perinatal AZT exposure on the acoustic startle response in adult rats

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 773-781

  Melnick, Susan M ^a   Weedon, Jeremy ^a   Dow Edwards, Diana L ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender effects; Habituation; Latency; Prenatal; Prepulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STOMACH INTUBATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0036853550     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(02)00317-3     Document Type: Article

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