Chronic ethanol exposure during adolescence through early adulthood in female rats induces emotional and memory deficits associated with morphological and molecular alterations in hippocampus

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 712-724

  Oliveira, Ana C A ^a   Pereira, Maria C S ^a   Santana, Luana N Da Silva ^a   Fernandes, Rafael M ^a   Teixeira, Francisco B ^a   Oliveira, Gedeão B ^a   Fernandes, Luanna M P ^a   Fontes Júnior, Enéas A ^a   Prediger, Rui D ^b   Crespo López, Maria E ^a   Gomes Leal, Walace ^a   Lima, Rafael R ^a   Maia, Cristiane Do Socorro Ferraz ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

adolescence; anxiety; ethanol; female; Hippocampus; memory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; CELL LOSS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; EMOTION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; WISTAR RAT;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; EMOTIONS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84930650312     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: 14617285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269881115581960     Document Type: Article

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