Magnetic resonance microscopy defines ethanol-induced brain abnormalities in prenatal mice: Effects of acute insult on gestational day 7

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 98-111

  Godin, Elizabeth A ^a   O'Leary Moore, Shonagh K ^a   Khan, Amber A ^a   Parnell, Scott E ^a   Ament, Jacob J ^a   Dehart, Deborah B ^a   Johnson, Brice W ^b   Allan Johnson, G ^b   Styner, Martin A ^a   Sulik, Kathleen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical Dysplasia; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; Holoprosencephaly; Leptomeningeal Heterotopia; Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; GASTRULATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HETEROTOPIA; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

MUS;

EID: 74049126070     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01071.x     Document Type: Article

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