Effects of dose and period of neonatal alcohol exposure on the context preexposure facilitation effect

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1160-1170

  Murawski, Nathen J ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Blood alcohol level; Context conditioning; Dose response effect; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Hippocampus; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

RATTUS;

EID: 79956075125     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01449.x     Document Type: Article

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