Effects of postnatal cocaine exposure and environmental enrichment on rat behavior in a forced swim test

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1025, Issue , 2004, Pages 619-629

  Magalhães, Ana ^a,b   Summavielle, Teresa ^a,b   Tavares, Maria Amélia ^a,c   De Sousa, Liliana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c All Health Sciences School of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cocaine; Environmental enrichment; Forced swim test; Postnatal; Rat

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 10444275641     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1316.077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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