Chronic prenatal ethanol exposure alters hippocampal GABAA receptors and impairs spatial learning in the guinea pig

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 117-125

  Iqbal, U ^a   Dringenberg, H C ^a   Brien, J F ^a   Reynolds, J N ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fetal alcohol syndrome; GABAA receptor; Guinea pig; Hippocampus; Neurosteroid; Prenatal ethanol exposure; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; FLUNITRAZEPAM; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FLUID INTAKE; GUINEA PIG; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; GABA MODULATORS; GUINEA PIGS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEARNING; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANOLONE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 1642374785     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00246-8     Document Type: Article

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