Prenatal alcohol exposure reduces the size of the forelimb representation in motor cortex in rat: an intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) mapping study

Alcohol

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-194

  Xie, Ni ^a   Yang, Qiuhong ^a   Chappell, Tyson D ^a   Li, Cheng Xiang ^a   Waters, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel field cortex; Barrels; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Fine motor skills; Motor development; Movement disorders; Sensorimotor deficits; Somatosensory cortex; Somatotopy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; KETAMINE; TUNGSTEN; XYLAZINE;

AGE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FORELIMB; GESTATION PERIOD; HEMISPHERE; LEARNING; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHANOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FORELIMB; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77249095981     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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