Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure reduces plasticity and alters NMDA receptor subunit composition in the dentate gyrus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1062-1067

  Brady, Megan L ^a   Diaz, Marvin R ^a   Iuso, Anthony ^a   Everett, Julie C ^a   Valenzuela, C Fernando ^a   Caldwell, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IFENPRODIL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84872309783     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1217-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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