Prenatal exposure to moderate levels of ethanol can have long-lasting effects on hippocampal synaptic plasticity in adult offspring

Hippocampus

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 232-238

  Sutherland, Robert J ^a   McDonald, Robert J ^a,b   Savage, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fetal alcohol syndrome; Long term potentiation; Perforant path

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030895664     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1997)7:2<232::AID-HIPO9>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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