Prenatal phenytoin exposure and spatial navigation in offspring effects on feference and working memory and on discrimination learning

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 567-578

  Inman, Sandra L ^a   Morford, Laronda L ^a   Moran, Mary S ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diphenylhydantoin; Learning and memory; Morris maze; Phenytoin; Prenatal effects; Reference memory; Spatial learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

PHENYTOIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTICONVULSANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PHENYTOIN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033199594     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(99)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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