Prenatal cocaine exposure does not alter working memory in adult rats

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 319-329

  Gendle, Mathew H ^a,c   Strawderman, Myla S ^a   Mactutus, Charles F ^b   Booze, Rosemarie M ^b   Levitsky, David A ^a   Strupp, Barbara J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed alternation; Intravenous injection; Prenatal cocaine; Working memory

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AFFECT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; RECREATION; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOXICITY TESTING; UTERUS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1542268346     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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