Ontogeny of the adrenal response to (+)-methamphetamine in neonatal rats: The effect of prior drug exposure

Stress

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 153-163

  Williams, Michael T ^a,c   Schaefer, Tori L ^a   Furay, Amy R ^b   Ehrman, Lisa A ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Methamphetamine; Neonatal; Stress hyporesponsive period; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; KINETICS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33750040861     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890600902842     Document Type: Article

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