Differential Effects of Prenatal Protein Malnutrition and Prenatal Cocaine on Radial Arm Maze Performance in Adult Male Rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-122

  Shumsky, Jed S ^a,b   Shultz, Penny L ^a   Galler, Janina R ^a   Tonkiss, John ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug abuse; Pregnancy; Protein restriction; Reference memory; Spatial learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342343745     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.1999.11747269     Document Type: Article

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