Acute prenatal exposure to ethanol and social behavior: Effects of age, sex, and timing of exposure

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 358-364

  Mooney, Sandra M ^a,b   Varlinskaya, Elena I ^b,c  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Autism; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Gastrulation; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; GASTRULATION; GESTATION PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEX; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78149408626     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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