Effects of Ethanol on Mechanisms Regulating Neuronal Process Outgrowth

Brain Development: Normal Processes and the Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lindsley, Tara A ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axons; Central nervous system; Dendrites; Ethanol exposure; Neuronal development; Neurons; Outgrowth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919721763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183139.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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