Patterns of social-experience-related c-fos and Arc expression in the frontal cortices of rats exposed to saccharin or moderate levels of ethanol during prenatal brain development

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-74

  Hamilton, Derek A ^a,b   Candelaria Cook, Felicha T ^a   Akers, Katherine G ^a   Rice, James P ^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

Ethanol teratogenesis; Immediate early gene expression; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; ALCOHOL; PROTEIN C FOS; SACCHARIN; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BOXING; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DENDRITIC SPINE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WRESTLING; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; SACCHARIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77955058438     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.048     Document Type: Article

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