The effect of prenatal methylmercury exposure on the GSH level and lipid peroxidation in the fetal brain and placenta of mice

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-126

  Watanabe, Chiho ^a,c   Kasanuma, Yuichi ^a   Dejima, Yasushi ^b   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal brain; Glutathione; Lipid peroxidation; Methylmercury; Mice

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; METHYLMERCURY; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MERCURIALISM; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUTATHIONE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LIPID PEROXIDES; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NOREPINEPHRINE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 0032943282     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.187.121     Document Type: Article

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