Abstract
The influence of prenatal malnutrition on the reactivity of the rat parietal association cortex was studied by testing thresholds of direct cortical responses. Chronic and acute prenatal starvation caused a significant increase of cortical chronaxy values, indicating a detrimental effect on the axodendritic synapses. Since these synapses subserve cortico-cortical influxes underlying association processes, this detrimental effect could be correlated with behavioral and learning deficits found in malnutrition.
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