Nicotine therapy in adulthood reverses the synaptic and behavioral deficits elicited by prenatal exposure to phenobarbital

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 156-165

  Beer, Avital ^a   Slotkin, Theodore A ^b   Seidler, Frederic J ^b   Aldridge, Justin E ^b   Yanai, Joseph ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Morris water maze; Nicotine therapy; Phenobarbital; PKC isoforms; Prenatal exposure; Septohippocampal cholinergic innervation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; ISOENZYME; NICOTINE TARTRATE; PHENOBARBITAL; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CEREBELLUM; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; TERATOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN STEM; CARBACHOL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; HEMICHOLINIUM 3; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; ISOENZYMES; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE INHIBITORS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOBARBITAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTEIN KINASE C; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWIMMING; SYNAPSES;

EID: 11144316764     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300582     Document Type: Article

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