Chronic nicotine exposure produces lateralized, age-dependent dendritic remodeling in the rodent basolateral amygdala

Synapse

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 754-764

  Bergstrom, Hadley C ^a,b   Smith, Robert F ^a   Mollinedo, Nadia S ^a   McDonald, Craig G ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Cerebral hemispheres; Dendrites; Development; Functional laterality; Infralimbic; Prefrontal cortex; Sprague Dawley rats

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 78649429340     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20783     Document Type: Article

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