The use of docosahexaenoic acid supplementation to ameliorate the hyperactivity of rat pups induced by in utero ethanol exposure

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 103-110

  Furuya, Hiroyuki ^a   Aikawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshida, Takahiko ^a,b   Okazaki, Isao ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Docosahexaenoic acid; Fetal alcohol effect; Hyperactive behavior; Learning behavior; Monoamine metabolites

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; MONOAMINE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; SUNFLOWER OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HYPERACTIVITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LIPID BRAIN LEVEL; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT;

EID: 0033670604     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.2000.103     Document Type: Article

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