Prenatal ethanol exposure reduces spinal cord motoneuron number in the fetal rat but does not affect GDNF target tissue protein

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 444-452

  Heaton, Marieta Barrow ^a   Kidd, Kara ^a   Bradley, Douglas ^a   Paiva, Michael ^a   Mitchell, Jean ^a   Walker, Don W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol neurotoxicity; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor; Motoneuron; Neurotrophic factors

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

EID: 0342879922     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017412     Document Type: Article

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