The Effect of Gestational Ethanol Exposure on Voluntary Ethanol Intake in Early Postnatal and Adult Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1306-1315

  Youngentob, Steven L ^a,b   Molina, Juan C ^a,b,c   Spear, Norman E ^b,c   Youngentob, Lisa M ^a,b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUNY Developmental Ethanol Research Center

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethanol abuse; ethanol drinking behavior; fetal ethanol exposure; fetal learning; postnatal ethanol affinity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38149069672     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.6.1306     Document Type: Article

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