Prenatal Exposure to Ethanol Alters the Organization of Hippocampal Mossy Fibers in Rats
- 27 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 211 (4485), 957-959
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7466371
Abstract
Rats exposed to ethanol throughout their gestation were found to have abnormally distributed mossy fibers in temporal regions of the hippocampus. This demonstrates that prenatal exposure to ethanol causes alterations in neuronal circuitry that persist to maturity. Such defects may play a role in the mental retardation often observed in children with fetal alcohol syndrome.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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