Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Zoeller, Robert Thomas

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 1R01AA010418-01A2
• Application #: 2356820
• Study Section: Biochemistry, Physiology and Medicine Subcommittee (ALCB)
• Project Start: 1996-09-30
• Project End: 1999-08-31
• Budget Start: 1996-09-30
• Budget End: 1997-08-31
• Support Year: 1
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Institution

• Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Department: Biology
• Type: Schools of Arts and Sciences
• DUNS #: 153223151
• City: Amherst
• State: MA
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 01003

Publications

Yang, Jun; Zoeller, R Thomas (2002) Differential display identifies neuroendocrine-specific protein-A (NSP-A) and interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) as ethanol-responsive genes in the fetal rat brain. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 138:117-33

Dowling, A L; Iannacone, E A; Zoeller, R T (2001) Maternal hypothyroidism selectively affects the expression of neuroendocrine-specific protein A messenger ribonucleic acid in the proliferative zone of the fetal rat brain cortex. Endocrinology 142:390-9

Dowling, A L; Martz, G U; Leonard, J L et al. (2000) Acute changes in maternal thyroid hormone induce rapid and transient changes in gene expression in fetal rat brain. J Neurosci 20:2255-65

Dowling, A L; Zoeller, R T (2000) Thyroid hormone of maternal origin regulates the expression of RC3/neurogranin mRNA in the fetal rat brain. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 82:126-32

Scott, H C; Sun, G Y; Zoeller, R T (1998) Prenatal ethanol exposure selectively reduces the mRNA encoding alpha-1 thyroid hormone receptor in fetal rat brain. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 22:2111-7