Polychlorinated biphenyls and methylmercury act synergistically to reduce rat brain dopamine content in vitro

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 879-885

  Bemis, Jeffrey C ^a   Seegal, Richard F ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Methylmercury; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Rat brain; Striatal slice; Synergism

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLMERCURY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; FISH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0032787535     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107879     Document Type: Article

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