Gestational Methylmercury Exposure Selectively Increases the Sensitivity of Operant Behavior to Cocaine

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 408-417

  Reed, Miranda N ^a   Newland, M Christopher ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cocaine; development; dopamine; methylmercury; operant behavior

Indexed keywords

2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; 8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; COCAINE; DESIPRAMINE; DRINKING WATER; METHYLMERCURY; QUINPIROLE; SELENIUM; SUCROSE; SULPIRIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE AGENTS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD;

EID: 65249118229     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014595     Document Type: Article

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