Second trimester prenatal alcohol exposure alters development of rat corpus callosum

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 719-732

  Qiang, Mei ^a   Wang, Ming Wei ^a   Elberger, Andrea J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain weight; Corpus callosum; Dendrite development; Fetal alcohol exposure; Rat; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DIODONE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRYSTAL; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036851730     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(02)00267-2     Document Type: Article

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