Cocaine treatment and prenatal environment interact to disrupt intergenerational maternal behavior in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1605-1618

  Johns, Josephine M ^a,f   Elliott, Deborah L ^a   Hofler, Vivian E ^a,e   Joyner, Paul W ^b   McMurray, Matthew S ^a   Jarrett, Thomas M ^a   Haslup, Amber M ^a   Middleton, Christopher L ^c   Elliott, Jay C ^d   Walker, Cheryl H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergenerational; Maternal behavior; Oxytocin; Prenatal; Rearing

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PROGENY; RAT; REARING; SPECIES COMPARISON;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COCAINE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 31344457661     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.6.1605     Document Type: Article

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