• DOI:10.1113/expphysiol.2007.038448
Corpus ID: 29592437

Maternal binge drinking and fetal neuronal damage

@article{Wood2007MaternalBD,
  title={Maternal binge drinking and fetal neuronal damage},
  author={C. Wood},
  journal={Experimental Physiology},
  year={2007},
  volume={92}
}

C. Wood

Published 2007

Medicine

Experimental Physiology

Maternal binge drinking has obvious detrimental effects on the developing fetus. These effects include development of the phenotype of the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and disordered development of the central nervous system (CNS). The mechanism of the CNS damage has been speculated to be fetal hypoxia or, perhaps more pertinently, fetal CNS tissue hypoxia. This hypothesis is not easily examined in small animal models of fetal alcohol exposure because of the inaccessibility of the developing… CONTINUE READING

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