Postnatal binge-like alcohol exposure reduces spine density without affecting dendritic morphology in rat mPFC

Synapse

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 566-573

  Whitcher, Lee T ^a   Klintsova, Anna Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal alcohol syndrome; Golgi; Plasticity; Prefrontal cortex; Pyramidal neurons

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CELL DENSITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GOLGI COMPLEX; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINE DISEASE;

ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DENDRITIC SPINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SILVER STAINING; SYNAPSES;

EID: 46749141369     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20532     Document Type: Article

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