Prenatal exposure to methylmercury alters locomotor activity of male but not female rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 428-436

  Rossi, A D ^a   Ahlbom, E ^a   Ogren S O ^a   Nicotera, P ^b   Ceccatelli, S ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

d amphetamine; Dopamine; Locomotor activity; Methylmercury; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLMERCURY; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030663279     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050237     Document Type: Article

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