Enhanced Deficits in Long-Term Potentiation in the Adult Dentate Gyrus with 2nd Trimester Ethanol Consumption

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Helfer, Jennifer L ^a   White, Emily R ^a   Christie, Brian R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; RAT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84870841608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051344     Document Type: Article

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