A selective loss of small-diameter myelinated optic nerve axons in rats prenatally exposed to ethanol

Congenital anomalies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-129

  Sawada, Kazuhiko ^a   Sakata Haga, Hiromi ^a   Komatsu, Suguru ^a   Ohta, Kyoko ^a   Jeong, Young Gil ^b   Fukui, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Kongyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS;

EID: 0036615276     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2002.tb00861.x     Document Type: Article

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