Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) reduces the size of the forepaw representation in forepaw barrel subfield (FBS) cortex in neonatal rats: Relationship between periphery and central representation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-396

  Margret, Cecilia P ^a   Chappell, Tyson D ^a   Li, Cheng X ^a   Jan, Taha A ^a   Matta, Shannon G ^b   Elberger, Andrea J ^a   Waters, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Barrels; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Limb defects; Sensorimotor deficits; Somatosensory cortex; Somatotopy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH RETARDATION; INTUBATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FORELIMB; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 33745017877     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0339-9     Document Type: Article

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