Additive and synergistic effects of fetal nicotine and dexamethasone exposure on cholinergic synaptic function in adolescence and adulthood: Implications for the adverse consequences of maternal smoking and pharmacotherapy of preterm delivery

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 552-560

  Slotkin, Theodore A ^a   Ryde, Ian T ^a   Seidler, Frederic J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Brain development; Dexamethasone; Glucocorticoids; Nicotine; Preterm delivery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXAMETHASONE; HEMICHOLINIUM 3; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEMICHOLINIUM 3; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PLASMA MEMBRANE NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SMOKING; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 76749100196     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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