Effects of prenatal cocaine on Morris and Barnes maze tests of spatial learning and memory in the offspring of C57BL/6J mice

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 547-557

  Inman Wood, Sandra L ^a   Williams, Michael T ^a   Morford, Laronda L ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Memory; Mice; Prenatal cocaine; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0343826067     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(00)00084-2     Document Type: Article

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