title: Prenatal exposure to cocaine: effects on aggression in Sprague-Dawley rats.
abstract: Social/aggressive behavior in adult rat offspring (beginning at postnatal Day 180) prenatally exposed to saline, cocaine, or amfonelic acid (AFA) was examined. Pregnant rats received injections of 15 mg/kg of cocaine, or 0.9% saline twice daily, s.c., or on 2 consecutive days at 4-day intervals, or 1.5 mg/kg amfonelic acid daily throughout gestational Days 1-20. Frequency, duration, and latency of 11 social/aggressive behaviors were recorded for two 15-min sessions during which a smaller male intruder replaced an ovariectomized female in the resident's home cage. Subjects received a s.c. saline injection before Session 1 and 2.0 mg/kg of gepirone, a 5HT1a partial agonist, prior to Session 2. Prenatal cocaine treatment resulted in alterations of aggressive behavior. Aggressive behavior was reduced by gepirone in all groups but to a lesser extent in the AFA group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7250.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Johns
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Means
authors.forename: E W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Bass
authors.forename: L W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Means
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: McMillen
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000187:drug effects*; D000378:Agonistic Behavior / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D003042:Cocaine / Q000633:toxicity*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009268:Nalidixic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D009287:Naphthyridines / Q000633:toxicity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D011743:Pyrimidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000187:drug effects; D012931:Social Environment
chemical_list: D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents; D009287:Naphthyridines; D011743:Pyrimidines; D009268:Nalidixic Acid; D003042:Cocaine; C039979:gepirone; C006486:amfonelic acid