Effects of prenatal ethanol exposure and early experience on radial maze performance and conditioned taste aversion in mice

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 185-190

  Opitz, Bernhard ^a   Mothes, Henning K ^a   Clausing, Peter ^a,b  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b LAB Research Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

C57BL 6 mice; Conditioned taste aversion; Differential preweaning rearing; Early experience; Prenatal ethanol exposure; Radial maze

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE AVERSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030904620     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(96)00225-5     Document Type: Article

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