Impact of prenatal nicotine on the structure of midbrain dopamine regions in the rat

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1939-1953

  Omelchenko, Natalia ^a,c   Roy, Priya ^a   Balcita Pedicino, Judith Joyce ^a   Poloyac, Samuel ^b   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

COTININE; DOPAMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PEROXIDASE; SODIUM BITARTRATE; TARTARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AXON; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE ENDING; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; COTININE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NICOTINE; PARS COMPACTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84923625506     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1014-y     Document Type: Article

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