Fetal alcohol exposure and temporal vulnerability: Effects of binge-like alcohol exposure on the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 774-780

  Livy, D J ^a   Maier, Susan E ^a   West, James R ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Ethanol; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Pregnancy; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035036430     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2001.tb02278.x     Document Type: Article

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