Delayed developmental changes in neonatal vocalizations correlates with variations in ventral medial hypothalamus and central amygdala development in the rodent infant: Effects of prenatal cocaine

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-175

  Cox, E T ^a,c   Hodge, C W ^a   Sheikh, M J ^a   Abramowitz, A C ^a   Jones, G F ^a   Jamieson Drake, A W ^a   Makam, P R ^a   Zeskind, P S ^b   Johns, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocain; Development; Limbic; Neonate; Prenatal; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; COCAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUP (RODENT); RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COCAINE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; MALE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84865420756     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.07.035     Document Type: Article

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