Cortico-thalamic connectivity is vulnerable to nicotine exposure during early postnatal development through α4/Β2/α5 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2324-2338

  Heath, Christopher J ^a   King, Sarah L ^a,b   Gotti, Cecilia ^c   Marks, Michael J ^d   Picciotto, Marina R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

cortex; development; nicotine; nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; thalamus

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FOOTSHOCK; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NICOTINE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; THALAMUS;

EID: 77957976758     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2010.130     Document Type: Article

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