Locomotor and learning deficits in adult rats exposed to monosodium-L-glutamate during early life

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 57-60

  Ali, M Mohd ^a   Bawari, M ^b   Misra, U K ^b   Babu, G N ^b  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Learning; Locomotor Activity; Monosodium L glutamate; Rat; Subneuroxic dose

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NECROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOTYPY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APOMORPHINE; BRAIN; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; WEANING;

EID: 0034697213     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00958-7     Document Type: Article

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