One week prior to mating, female rats were adrenalectomized or sham-operated and, immediately following parturition, each was given a foster litter of 10 newborn pups from a mother in the same group. Retrieving measures at the time of fostering revealed no significant differences between the 2 group
Effects of maternal adrenalectomy on the developing dopaminergic system
✍ Scribed by José Carlos González; Virginia Peinado; Celia Machı́n; Carmen Rúa; Marı́a Luisa Leret
- Book ID
- 113567001
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Volume
- 149
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-3806
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