title: Avoidance  conditioning and Hebb-Williams maze performance in rats treated prenatally with alcohol.
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 ethanol-fed mothers were found to be impaired on two-way avoidance conditioning when compared to control offspring, but did not differ from controls in their performance on the Hebb-Williams maze. Fostering and cross-fostering procedures indicated that the effect was due to prenatal influences arising from the drug treatment.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000187:drug effects*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D007858:Learning / Q000187:drug effects*; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol