Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Cortical Angiogenesis

Abstract

Researchers at Normandy University, and Rouen and Brest Universities, France studied the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the cortical microvascular and the action of alcohol, glutamate, and vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF) on activity, plasticity, and survival of microvessels in mice.

Keywords

• fetal alcohol syndrome
• vascular endothelial growth factor
• neurological-epilepsy