The neonatal neurotoxicity of monosodium l-glutamate on the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area in rats

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 342-347

  Hsieh, Ya Lun ^a   Hsu, Chin ^a   Lite, Sheng I ^a   Hsu, Hseng Kuang ^a   Peng, Ming Tsung ^b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Monosodium L glutamate; Neonatal neurotoxicity; Preoptic area; Sexually dimorphic nucleus

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030916747     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111231     Document Type: Article

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