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 shock-avoidance learning when compared to control offspring.
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