Chronic, low-level exposure to diisopropylfluorophosphate causes protracted impairment of spatial navigation learning

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-191

  Prendergast, Mark A ^a,b   Terry Jr , Alvin V ^a   Buccafusco, Jerry J ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylcholinesterase; body weight; DFP; hippocampus; locomotion; olfaction; organophosphate; spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DYFLOS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DRUG TOLERANCE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISOFLUROPHATE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SMELL;

EID: 0031017665     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050179     Document Type: Article

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