The effects of vitamin D3 during pregnancy and lactation on offspring physiology and behavior in Sprague-Dawley rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-22

  Pan, Pauline ^a   Jin, Daniel H S ^a   Chatterjee Chakraborty, Munmun ^b   Halievski, Katherine ^a   Lawson, Daeria ^a   Remedios, David ^a   Smetka, Cassandra ^a   Pinto, Vania ^a   Parra, Esteban ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior, biochemistry; Development; Lactation; Rats; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL; VITAMIN D;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR, BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LACTATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

BEHAVIOR, BIOCHEMISTRY; DEVELOPMENT; LACTATION; RATS; VITAMIN D;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLECALCIFEROL; FEMALE; LACTATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84889635039     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21086     Document Type: Article

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