Low and moderate doses of acute ethanol do not impair spatial cognition but facilitate accelerating rotarod performance in adolescent and adult rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 512, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-42

  Novier, Adelle ^a   Van Skike, Candice E ^a   Chin, Vivien S ^a   Diaz Granados, Jaime L ^a   Matthews, Douglas B ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Ethanol; Hippocampus; Memory; Rotarod; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCELERATING ROTAROD TEST; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; ETHANOL; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84858001831     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.01.059     Document Type: Article

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