Moderate-level prenatal alcohol exposure alters striatal dopamine system function in rhesus monkeys

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1685-1697

  Schneider, Mary L ^a   Moore, Colleen F ^b   Barnhart, Todd E ^b   Larson, Julie A ^b   DeJesus, Onofre T ^b   Mukherjee, Jogeshwar ^b   Nickles, Robert J ^b   Converse, Alexander K ^b   Roberts, Andrew D ^b   Kraemer, Gary W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dopamine; Fetal Alcohol Exposure; Neurobehavior; Positron Emission Tomography; Rhesus Monkey; Striatum

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORO 2 TYROSINE F 18; ALCOHOL; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; FALLYLPRIDE F 18; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; RHESUS MONKEY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BENZAMIDES; CORPUS STRIATUM; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PYRROLIDINES; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 25844502491     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.alc.0000179409.80370.25     Document Type: Article

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