The long-term effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on learning in rats
A rat model was used to determine whether prenatal cocaine exposure results in long-term changes in hippocampal-dependent contextual fear conditioning. Pregnant dams received either 40 mg/kg cocaine HCl SC (COC), an equal volume of 0.9% saline (SAL), or received no injections (UT) from gestational d...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1999
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9932299 |