Prenatal exposure to moderate levels of ethanol alters social behavior in adult rats: Relationship to structural plasticity and immediate early gene expression in frontal cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 290-304

  Hamilton, Derek A ^a,b   Akers, Katherine G ^a   Rice, James P ^a   Johnson, Travis E ^a   Candelaria Cook, Felicha T ^a   Maes, Levi I ^b   Rosenberg, Martina ^b   Valenzuela, C Fernando ^b   Savage, Daniel D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agranular insular cortex; Enrichment; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Golgi Cox; Medial frontal cortex; Prelimbic cortex; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; ALCOHOL; PROTEIN C FOS; SACCHARIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 74449090644     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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