Significant long-term, but not short-term, hippocampal-dependent memory impairment in adult rats exposed to alcohol in early postnatal life

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1316-1326

  Goodfellow, Molly J ^a   Lindquist, Derick H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context pre exposure facilitation effect; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Hippocampus; Memory consolidation; NMDA receptor

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONING; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; ETHANOL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84905239427     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21210     Document Type: Article

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