Impact of Combined Prenatal Ethanol and Prenatal Stress Exposure on Anxiety and Hippocampal-Sensitive Learning in Adult Offspring

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2039-2047

  Staples, Miranda C ^a   Rosenberg, Martina J ^b   Allen, Nyika A ^a   Porch, Morgan W ^a   Savage, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; Maternal Stress; Trace Conditioning

Indexed keywords

2,4,5 TRIMETHYL 3 THIAZOLINE; ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; SACCHARIN;

2 TRIAL TRACE CONDITIONING TASK; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEMALE; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING CURVE; LEARNING TEST; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL SERUM; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; TERATOGENESIS; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

RATTUS;

ANXIETY; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER; MATERNAL STRESS; TRACE CONDITIONING;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84897105020     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12190     Document Type: Article

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