Four weeks' inhalation exposure of long evans rats to 4-tert-butyltoluene: Effect on evoked potentials, behaviour, and brain neurochemistry

Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-17

  Lam, Henrik Rye ^a   Ladefoged, Ole ^a   Ostergaard, Grete ^a   Hass, Ulla ^b   Lund, Soren Peter ^b   Simonsen, Leif ^b  

^a DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 TERT BUTYLTOLUENE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; ORGANIC SOLVENT; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICOKINETICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033870639     PISSN: 09019928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0901-9928.2000.870103.x     Document Type: Article

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