Ethanol neurotoxicity and dentate gyrus development

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 110-117

  Miki, Takanori ^a   Yokoyama, Toshifumi ^a   Sumitani, Kazunori ^a   Kusaka, Takashi ^a   Warita, Katsuhiko ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshiki ^a   Wang, Zhi Yu ^a   Wilce, Peter A ^b   Bedi, Kuldip S ^c   Itoh, Susumu ^a   Takeuchi, Yoshiki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Development; Ethanol; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DENTATE GYRUS; EXPOSURE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; CHILD; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEUROTOXINS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 48749118449     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2008.00190.x     Document Type: Review

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