Prenatal ethanol exposure has sex-specific effects on hippocampal long-term potentiation

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-64

  Sickmann, H M ^a,b   Patten, A R ^a   Morch, K ^a   Sawchuk, S ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Parton, R ^a   Szlavik, L ^a   Christie, B R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Glutamate decarboxylase; Glutamine synthetase; LTP; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ESTROGEN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARIECTOMY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT;

FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE; LTP; SEX DIFFERENCES;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84890118182     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22203     Document Type: Article

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