Ethanol-Induced Death of Postnatal Hippocampal Neurons

Fetal alcohol exposure causes severe neuropsychiatric problems, but mechanisms of the ethanol-associated changes in central nervous system development are unclear. In vivo, ethanol's interaction with N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) and γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors may cause increase...

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Main Authors: Krista L. Moulder, Tao Fu, Heidi Melbostad, Robert J. Cormier, Keith E. Isenberg, Charles F. Zorumski, Steven Mennerick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2002-08-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996102905231