(+/-)3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) dose-dependently impairs spatial learning in the morris water maze after exposure of rats to different five-day intervals from birth to postnatal day twenty

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 107-120

  Vorhees, Charles V ^a,b   Schaefer, Tori L ^a   Skelton, Matthew R ^a   Grace, Curtis E ^a   Herring, Nicole R ^a   Williams, Michael T ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

Brain development; Ecstasy; Elevated zero maze; Learning and memory; Locomotor activity; MDMA; Morris water maze; Novel object recognition; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HALLUCINOGENS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; N-METHYL-3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 65349145927     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000207499     Document Type: Article

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