Persistent alterations in regional brain glial fibrillary acidic protein and synaptophysin levels following pre- and postnatal polychlorinated biphenyl exposure

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 252-261

  Morse, Dennis C ^a,c   Plug, Annemieke ^b   Wesseling, Wendelien ^a   Van Den Berg, Kor J ^b   Brouwer, Abraham ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR 1254; CALCINEURIN; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY TRACT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030220015     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.0164     Document Type: Article

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