Methylmercury increases glutamate extracellular levels in frontal cortex of awake rats

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 767-771

  Juarez B I ^a   Martinez M L ^a   Montante, M ^a   Dufour, L ^a   Garcia E ^a   Jiménez Capdeville, Maria Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; Glutamate; Mercury; Methylmercury; Microdialysis

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0036852749     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-0362(02)00270-2     Document Type: Article

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