Ethanol induces locomotor activating effects in preweanling Sprague-Dawley rats

Alcohol

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-23

  Arias, Carlos ^b   Mlewski, Estela C ^b   Molina, Juan Carlos ^b   Spear, Norman E ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Locomotor activity; Prewealing rat; Rectal temperature; Righting reflex; Sedation; Stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHERMIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RAT; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RIGHTING REFLEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

RATTUS;

EID: 58549100296     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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