Effects of neonatal ethanol exposure on cholinergic neurons of the rat medial septum

Alcohol

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-226

  Moore, D Blaine ^a   Lee, Pamela ^a   Paiva, Michael ^a   Walker, Don W ^a,b   Heaton, Marieta Barrow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial rearing; ChAT; Cholinergic; Ethanol; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Medial septum; Neuron; Neuronal size

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; MICROCEPHALY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REARING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032053433     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-8329(97)00123-7     Document Type: Article

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