Environmental risk factors and Parkinson's disease: Selective degeneration of nigral dopaminergic neurons caused by the herbicide paraquat

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 119-127

  McCormack, Alison L ^a   Thiruchelvam, Mona ^b   Manning Bog, Amy B ^a   Thiffault, Christine ^a   Langston, J William ^a   Cory Slechta, Deborah A ^b   Di Monte, Donato A ^a  

^a PARKINSON S INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; GABA; Hippocampus; Mice; Neurotoxicity; Pesticide; Stereology; Striatum; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PARAQUAT; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0036075892     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.2002.0507     Document Type: Article

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