Prenatal zinc treatment at the time of acute ethanol exposure limits spatial memory impairments in mouse offspring

Pediatric Research

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-71

  Summers, Brooke L ^a,b   Rofe, Allan M ^c   Coyle, Peter ^a  

^a HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ZINC; ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; LITTER SIZE; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; LEARNING; LITTER SIZE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SPACE PERCEPTION; ZINC;

EID: 33644826313     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.pdr.0000190573.23893.13     Document Type: Article

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