Changes in neuropeptide immunoreactivity in cultured adult mouse sensory neurons following methylmercury chloride treatments

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-16

  Baxter, Gwen J ^a   Smith, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; In vitro; Methyl mercury; Neuropeptides; Neurotoxicology; Sensory neurons; Somatostatin; Substance P

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; METHYLMERCURY; NEUROPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROPEPTIDES; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 0032540406     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00210-9     Document Type: Article

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