Prenatal alcohol consumption and open-field behaviour in rats: Effects of age at time of testing
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 52 (3) , 311-312
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00426717
Abstract
Throughout gestation pregnant Wistar rats consumed a nutritious liquid diet containing 35% ethanol-derived calories. Control mothers were fed lab-chow. Subsequently, the offspring of the ethanolfed mothers displayed significantly greater activity (ambulation) in an open-field test at 28 and at 56 days of age, but not at 112 days of age. No differences in defecation were observed at any age.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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