Dietary zinc supplementation throughout pregnancy protects against fetal dysmorphology and improves postnatal survival after prenatal ethanol exposure in mice

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 591-600

  Summers, Brooke L ^a,b   Rofe, Allan M ^a   Coyle, Peter ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dysmorphology; Metallothionein; Postnatal Survival; Pregnancy; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; INCIDENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL; TERATOGENICITY; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHANOL; FEMALE; LIVER; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ZINC;

MUS;

EID: 63149116018     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00873.x     Document Type: Article

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