Maternal care alterations induced by repeated ethanol leads to heightened consumption of the drug and motor impairment during adolescence: A dose-response analysis

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 477-486

  Ponce, Luciano F ^a,c   Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos ^a,c   Spear, Norman E ^b   Molina, Juan C ^a,b,c  

^a Instituto de Investigación Médica M y M Ferreyra ^*  (Argentina)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Alcohol intake; Ethanol; Infancy; Maternal care; Motor coordination; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTOR SKILLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST;

EID: 79954619603     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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