Long-term effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the size of the whisker representation in juvenile and adult rat barrel cortex

Alcohol

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 239-251

  Chappell, Tyson D ^a   Margret, Cecilia P ^b   Li, Cheng X ^a   Waters, Robert S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; FASD; Fetal alcohol exposure; PMBSF; Somatosensory cortex; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FOREBRAIN; GESTATION PERIOD; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTEROMEDIAL BARREL SUBFIELD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 34447283242     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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