Effects of prenatal ethanol exposure and postnatal handling on cognition/behavior and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal stress responsiveness in Sprague-Dawley rats

The maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy produces a wide range of abnormalities in the offspring. The major objectives of this thesis were to investigate (1) the correspondence between prenatal ethanol-induced alterations in behavior and in hypothalamicpituitary- adrenal (HPA) activit...

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Main Author: Gabriel, Kara Irene
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11143