The effects of chronic nicotine on spatial learning and bromodeoxyuridine incorporation into the dentate gyrus of the rat

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 184, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 540-546

  Scerri, Charles ^a,b   Stewart, Caroline A ^a   Breen, Kieran C ^a   Balfour, David J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Bromodeoxyuridine; Cognition; Hippocampus; Memory; Nicotine; Water maze

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FLUORESCENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIVISION; DENTATE GYRUS; DNA REPLICATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 32844459316     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-0086-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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