Altered water-maze search behavior in adult guinea pigs following chronic prenatal ethanol exposure: Lack of mitigation by postnatal fluoxetine treatment

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 202-209

  McAdam, Teresa D ^a   Brien, James F ^a,b   Reynolds, James N ^a,b   Dringenberg, Hans C ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic prenatal ethanol exposure (CPEE); Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD); Fluoxetine; Guinea pig; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation (LTP); Thigmotaxis; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FLUOXETINE; SERIC GONADOTROPIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING; GUINEA PIG; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SWIMMING; TERATOGENICITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EATING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHANOL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; GUINEA PIGS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 43849088342     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.029     Document Type: Article

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