The effects of ethanol and silymarin treatment during gestation on spatial working memory

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Neese, Steven ^a   La Grange, Linda ^a   Trujillo, Elisharose ^a   Romero, David ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BIOFLAVONOID; PHOSPHOLIPID; SILIBININ; SILYMARIN;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; MALE; MEMORY; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SILYMARIN; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 2442716434     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-4-4     Document Type: Article

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