Publication Date:
1980-01-11
Description:
Characteristic potentiation of rat locomotion responses and acoustic startle reflexes that normally appear in the third postnatal week was absent in rats exposed to diazepam during the third week of gestation. Loss of these behaviors suggests a long-term effect that may result from changes in cellular development. Tissue undergoing neuronal differentation may be especially sensitive to drugs that act on the central nervous system, and the period in which differentiation occurs is perhaps critical for the induction of changes that are later expressed as altered behavior.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kellogg, C -- Tervo, D -- Ison, J -- Parisi, T -- Miller, R K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Jan 11;207(4427):205-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7350658" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Auditory Perception/drug effects
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Behavior, Animal/*drug effects
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Diazepam/*pharmacology
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Female
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Fetus/*drug effects
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Gestational Age
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Motor Activity/drug effects
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Pregnancy
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Rats
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Reflex, Startle/drug effects
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Sound
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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