Hormonal, neurochemical, and behavioral response to a forced swim test in adolescent rats throughout cocaine withdrawal

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1139, Issue , 2008, Pages 366-373

  Alves, Cecília Juliana ^a,b   Magalhães, Ana ^a   Summavielle, Teresa ^a,c   Melo, Pedro ^a   De Sousa, Liliana ^a,b   Tavares, Maria Amélia ^a,b   Monteiro, Pedro R R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Behavior; Chronic exposure; Cocaine; Corticosterone; Forced swim test; Monoamines; Rat; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; STRESS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 53549107231     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1432.047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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