Adolescent nicotine exposure disrupts context conditioning in adulthood in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 501-506

  Spaeth, Andrea M ^a   Barnet, Robert C ^a   Hunt, Pamela S ^a   Burk, Joshua A ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Context conditioning; Extinction; Hippocampus; Minipump; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; MALE; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77956061709     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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