Perinatal caffeine, acting on maternal adenosine A(1) receptors, causes long-lasting behavioral changes in mouse offspring.

There are lingering concerns about caffeine consumption during pregnancy or the early postnatal period, partly because there may be long-lasting behavioral changes after caffeine exposure early in life.We show that pregnant wild type (WT) mice given modest doses of caffeine (0.3 g/l in drinking wate...

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Main Authors: Olga Björklund, Johan Kahlström, Peter Salmi, Bertil B Fredholm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2597749?pdf=render