Short-term memory impairment and reduced hippocampal c-Fos expression in an animal model of fetal alcohol syndrome

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1049-1059

  Clements, Koreen M ^a   Girard, Todd A ^b   Ellard, Colin G ^a   Wainwright, Patricia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

c Fos Immunohistochemistry; Delayed Matching to Place (DMP); Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS); Morris Water Maze; Spatial Memory

Indexed keywords

DEXTRIN; MALTOSE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED MATCHING TO PLACE TEST; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FOS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 21644480408     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000171040.82077.E     Document Type: Article

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