. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Mar 9.

Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2006 Dec 4;85(3):575–583. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2006.10.012

Table 2.

Litter characteristics at birth (mean±SEM).

Prenatal Exposure	Litter Size	Litter Weight	Mean Pup Weight	Deaths/Litter (PND 0–7)^a
Saline	13.1±0.8	102.3±4.9	8.0±0.3	0.6±0.3
Nicotine	13.6±0.9	89.4±5.3	6.6±0.2^**	2.4±0.9

Includes litters excluded from behavioral testing.

^**

Significantly different from saline, p<0.01