Voluntary Exercise Influences Behavioral Development in Rats Exposed to Alcohol During the Neonatal Brain Growth Spurt

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1264-1273

  Thomas, Jennifer D ^a   Sather, Tamie Miura ^a   Whinery, Lynn A ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fetal alcohol syndrome; open field; spatial learning; teratogenic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN GROWTH; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHANOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SWIMMING;

EID: 57049147457     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013271     Document Type: Article

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