Chronic Neonatal Nicotine Increases Anxiety But Does Not Impair Cognition in Adult Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1342-1352

  Huang, Luping Z ^a   Liu, Xuhong ^a   Griffith, William H ^a   Winzer Serhan, Ursula H ^a  

^a Experimental Therapeutics

Author keywords

anxiety; learning and memory; motor coordination; nicotinic

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN GROWTH; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MAZE TEST; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGENY; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RODENT; SMOKING CESSATION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 38149035882     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.6.1342     Document Type: Article

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