Therapeutic motor training increases parallel fiber synapse number per Purkinje neuron in cerebellar cortex of rats given postnatal binge alcohol exposure: Preliminary report

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1257-1263

  Klintsova, Anna Y ^a   Matthews, Jessica T ^a   Goodlett, Charles R ^b   Napper, Ruth M A ^c   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Cerebellum; Postnatal Alcohol Exposure; Stereology; Synaptic Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030845685     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1997.tb04446.x     Document Type: Article

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