Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on activity and learning in Sprague-Dawley rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 515-520

  Westergren, S ^a   Rydenhag, B ^a   Bassen, M ^a   Archer, T ^a   Conradi, N G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

activity; liquid diet; Morris type swim maze; motor activity test chambers; operant discriminative test; prenatal alcohol exposure; rats; relearning; residential maze; visual learning

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GROWTH RETARDATION; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EATING; ETHANOL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TERATOGENS;

EID: 0030459458     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00277-8     Document Type: Article

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