Residual behavioral and neuroanatomical effects of short-term chronic ethanol consumption in rats

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 449-461

  Santucci, Anthony C ^a   Mercado, Marisol ^a   Bettica, Annemarie ^a   Cortes, Christian ^a   York, Daniel ^a   Moody, Erik ^a  

^a MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drugs of abuse: alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines; Hippocampus; Morris water maze; Neural Basis of Behavior; Open field; Passive avoidance; Spatial memory; Thigmotaxis; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; THICKNESS; VOLUMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHANOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242727828     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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