Nicotine-induced dendritic remodeling in the insular cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 516, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-93

  Ehlinger, Daniel G ^a   Bergstrom, Hadley C ^b   McDonald, Craig G ^a   Smith, Robert F ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Dendrite; Insula; Morphology; Nicotine; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; GOLGI STAIN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSULA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NICOTINE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84860246722     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.064     Document Type: Article

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