Longitudinal brain magnetic resonance imaging study of the alcohol-preferring rat. Part I: Adult brain growth

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1234-1247

  Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^b,c   Sood, Rohit ^c   Mayer, Dirk ^a   Bell, Richard ^d   McBride, William ^d   Li, Ting Kai ^e   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^f SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Alcohol; Brain Growth; Morphology; MRI; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

AGING; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 33745139481     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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