Multigenerational exposure to dietary nonylphenol has no severe effects on spatial learning in female rats

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-94

  Flynn, Katherine M ^a   Newbold, Retha R ^b   Ferguson, Sherry A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related; Endocrine disrupter; Estrogen; Memory; Nonylphenol; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; NONYLPHENOL; PROGESTERONE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; OVARIECTOMY; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0036560296     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-813X(02)00007-4     Document Type: Article

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