Low-dose thyroxine attenuates autism-associated adverse effects of fetal alcohol in male offspring's social behavior and hippocampal gene expression

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1986-1995

  Tunc Ozcan, Elif ^a   Ullmann, Timothy M ^a   Shukla, Pradeep K ^a   Redei, Eva E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorders; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Social Interaction; Social Memory; Thyroxine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; LIOTHYRONINE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SLC25A12; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIO3 GENE; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GABRB3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NR2B GENE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RASGRF1 GENE; RAT; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UBE3A GENE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL MEMORY; THYROXINE;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THYROXINE;

EID: 84886445160     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12183     Document Type: Article

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