Early postnatal exposure to alcohol reduces the number of neurons in the occipital but not the parietal cortex of the rat

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 683-691

  Mooney, Sandra M ^a   Napper, Ruth M A ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brain Development; Cerebral Cortex; Ethanol; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GLIA CELL; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 17444377501     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000158936.40150.5A     Document Type: Article

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