Fetal alcohol exposure and temporal vulnerability: Regional differences in cell loss as a function of the timing of binge-like alcohol exposure during brain development

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 726-734

  Maier, Susan E ^a   Miller, Jennifer A ^a   Blackwell, Jennifer M ^a   West, James R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Granule cell; Mitral cell; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; GRANULE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HUMANS; OLFACTORY BULB; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032913424     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000374-199904001-00020     Document Type: Article

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