Lead intoxication during intrauterine life and lactation but not during adulthood reduces nucleus accumbens dopamine release as studied by brain microdialysis

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 199-206

  Devoto, Paola ^a   Flore, Giovanna ^a   Ibba, Antonio ^a   Fratta, Walter ^a   Pani, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Intrauterine life; Lead; Nucleus accumbens; Weaning

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DRINKING WATER; LEAD ACETATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; QUINPIROLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LACTATION; LEAD POISONING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEANING;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; LACTATION; LEAD; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0035912595     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(01)00336-8     Document Type: Article

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