Early adolescents show enhanced acute cocaine-induced locomotor activity in comparison to late adolescent and adult rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-133

  Badanich, Kimberly A ^a   Maldonado, Antoniette M ^a   Kirstein, Cheryl L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent rat; Dopamine; Drug abuse; Limbic system; Sprague Dawley

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROBABILITY; RAT; SOCIALIZATION; AGE; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COCAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 41649102472     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20252     Document Type: Article

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