Rat brain acetylcholinesterase activity: Developmental profile and maturational sensitivity to carbamate and organophosphorus inhibitors

Toxicology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-19

  Mortensen, S R ^a,b   Hooper, M J ^b   Padilla, S ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbamate; Organophosphorus inhibitors; Rat brain

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALDICARB; CARBAMATE INSECTICIDE; CARBARIL; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHOLINESTERASE; MALAOXON; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AGE FACTORS; ALDICARB; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; MALATHION; MALE; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032536117     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(97)00157-1     Document Type: Article

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