Spatial cognition and sexually dimorphic synaptic plasticity balance impairment in rats with chronic prenatal ethanol exposure

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 256, Issue , 2013, Pages 564-574

  An, Lei ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive deficit; Ethanol; Offspring rats; Sexual dimorphism; Synaptic plasticity balance

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MAZE TEST; MICROCEPHALY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL COGNITION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CF; CHRONIC PRENATAL ETHANOL EXPOSURE; CM; CNS; COGNITIVE DEFICIT; CONTROL FEMALE; CONTROL MALE; CPEE; CPEE FEMALE; CPEE MALE; DEPI; DEPOTENTIATION INDEX; DI; DIRECTIONAL INDEX; EF; EM; ETHANOL; FEPSPS; FIELD EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HPA; HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL; INITIAL TRAINING STAGE; IT; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION INDEX; LTP; LTPI; MORRIS WATER MAZE; MWM; OFFSPRING RATS; PAIR-FED MALE; PF; PM; POAIR-FED FEMALE; REVERSAL TRAINING; RT; SET; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPACE EXPLORING TEST; SPB; SPBI; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY BALANCE; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY BALANCE INDEX; SYNAPTIC PLASTICIY BALANCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84884950607     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.09.017     Document Type: Article

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