Postnatal stress impairs the learning of two-way avoidance task in prenatally alcoholized adult rats

Mild stress (handling and subcutaneous injection of 0.9% NaCl from postnatal day 8 through day 20) normally improves acquisition of a shuttle-box avoidance task in mature male rats. In the offspring of rats given intragastral injections of 25% ethanol (5 g/kg) from day 1 till day 20 of pregnancy, both handling and injections impair learning. Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 123, No. 3, pp. 302–304, March, 1997