Nicotine-induced impairments of spatial cognition and long-term potentiation in adolescent male rats

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 203-213

  Han, G ^a   An, L ^a   Yang, B ^a   Si, L ^a   Zhang, T ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

learning and memory; long term potentiation; Morris water maze; Nicotine; short term potentiation

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SHORT TERM POTENTIATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

LEARNING AND MEMORY; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MORRIS WATER MAZE; NICOTINE; SHORT-TERM POTENTIATION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NICOTINE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84890846300     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327113494902     Document Type: Article

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