Prenatal ethanol exposure impairs passive avoidance acquisition and enhances unconditioned freezing in rat offspring

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-258

  Ohta, Ken ichi ^a,b   Sakata Haga, Hiromi ^a   Fukui, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elevated open platform; Elevated T maze; Fetal alcohol; One way escape; Passive avoidance; Unconditioned freezing

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GESTATIONAL AGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84864066852     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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