Persistent deficits in heart rate response habituation following neonatal binge ethanol exposure

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1596-1604

  Morasch, Katherine C ^a   Hunt, Pamela S ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; Nonassociative learning; Olfactory; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMYL NITRATE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HABITUATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATTENTION; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HEART RATE; MALE; MEMORY; PENTANOLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 69249154717     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00991.x     Document Type: Article

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