Neonatal alcohol exposure impairs contextual fear conditioning in juvenile rats by disrupting cholinergic function

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 248, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-120

  Dokovna, Lisa B ^a   Jablonski, Sarah A ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic system; Contextual fear conditioning; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Hippocampus; Neonatal alcohol exposure; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTEXT PREEXPOSURE FACILITATION EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FREEZING; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 84877314367     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.03.043     Document Type: Article

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