Prenatal morphine exposure alters the layer II/III pyramidal neurons morphology in lateral secondary visual cortex of juvenile rats

Synapse

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1154-1161

  Mei, Bin ^a   Niu, Lei ^b   Cao, Bin ^b   Huang, Dake ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^b  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Basal dendrite, Golgi Cox; Prenatal morphine exposure; Pyramidal neurons

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 70349876479     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20694     Document Type: Article

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