Nicotine exposure during adolescence: Cognitive performance and brain gene expression in adult heterozygous reeler mice

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 231, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1775-1787

  Romano, Emilia ^a,b   De Angelis, Federica ^c   Ulbrich, Lisa ^c   De Jaco, Antonella ^c   Fuso, Andrea ^d   Laviola, Giovanni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Animal models; Behavioral disorders; Cognition; Nicotine; Reelin; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; REELIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE PROTEIN; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; REELIN PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HOLE BOARD TEST; LIGHT-DARK TEST; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REELER MOUSE; T-MAZE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 84898598834     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3388-y     Document Type: Article

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