A novel model for prenatal brain damage - II. Long-term deficits in hippocampal cell number and hippocampal-dependent behavior following neonatal GABAA receptor activation

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 270-280

  Nuñez, Joseph L ^a   Alt, Jesse J ^a   McCarthy, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL;

ANATOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038730931     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4886(03)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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