Peri, pre and postnatal morphine exposure: Exposure-induced effects and sex differences in the behavioural consequences in rat offspring

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-68

  Timár, Julia ^a   Sobor, Melinda ^a,b   Király, Kornél P ^a   Gyarmati, Susanna ^a   Riba, Pál ^a   Al Khrasani, Mahmoud ^a   Fürst, Susanna ^a,c  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Orszagos Gyogyszereszeti Intezet   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Antinociception; Conditioned place preference; Morphine exposure; Offspring; Perinatal; Rat; Sex differences; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BREAST MILK; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHINE TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74549209066     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3283359f39     Document Type: Article

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