Effects of Ethyl Alcohol Administration to Rat Dams during the Gestation Period on Learning Behavior and on Levels of Monoamines and Metabolites in Rat Pup Brain after Birth

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-92

  Furuya, Hiroyuki ^a   Aikawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshida, Takahiko ^a   Okazaki, Isao ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethyl alcohol; Gestation period; Monoamine metabolites; Monoamines; Operant behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006994713     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931196     Document Type: Article

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