Dietary zinc supplementation during pregnancy prevents spatial and object recognition memory impairments caused by early prenatal ethanol exposure

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 230-238

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

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Ethanol; Memory; Pregnancy; Teratogenicity; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TERATOGENICITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOLS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 36248994690     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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