Effects of exercise and environmental complexity on deficits in trace and contextual fear conditioning produced by neonatal alcohol exposure in rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 483-495

  Schreiber, W B ^a   St Cyr, S A ^a   Jablonski, S A ^a   Hunt, P S ^b   Klintsova, A Y ^a   Stanton, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental complexity; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Hippocampus; Neonatal alcohol exposure; Trace fear conditioning; Voluntary exercise

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONING; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; ETHANOL; FEAR; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84878835512     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21052     Document Type: Article

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