Specificity of cognitive impairment from Pfiesteria piscicida exposure in rats - Attention and visual function versus behavioral plasticity

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 609-616

  Rezvani, Amir H ^a   Bushnell, Philip J ^b   Burkholder, JoAnn M ^c   Glasgow Jr , Howard B ^c   Levin, Edward D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellates; Figure 8 maze; Learning; Pfiesteria; Radial arm maze; Toxic; Visual signal detection test

Indexed keywords

FISH VENOM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PFIESTERIA; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MAZE LEARNING; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

DINOPHYCEAE; PFIESTERIA; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA;

EID: 0035709812     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(01)00169-6     Document Type: Article

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