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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2011 Dec 5;36(5):748–758. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01676.x

Figure 11.

Figure 11

Analysis of the ratio of the decrease in fVTI from the fetal aorta to the fetal middle cerebral artery before and following maternal ethanol exposure (ΔΔfVTI(MCA-AA)) reveals evidence for an adaptive fetal ‘brain-sparing’ response to maternal ethanol exposure. Repeated ethanol exposure resulted in both an acute and a persistent (i.e., an effect observed at GD13.5 and 14.5 due to exposures on GD12.5 and 13.5) drop in the ΔΔfVTI(MCA-AA) ratio suggesting that the decline in fVTI at the MCA is less that predicted from the drop in fVTI at the aorta.