Does prenatal nicotine exposure sensitize the brain to nicotine-induced neurotoxicity in adolescence?

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1440-1450

  Abreu Villaça, Yael ^a,b   Seidler, Frederic J ^a   Slotkin, Theodore A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Fundacao Educacional Serra dos Orgaos Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Brain development; Cell damage; Cerebral cortex; DNA; Hippocampus; Midbrain; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; DRUG VEHICLE; NICOTINE; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SIZE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DRUG SENSITIZATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CELL SIZE; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURITES; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; NICOTINE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 3242754259     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300443     Document Type: Article

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