Developmental neurotoxicity of toluene: In vivo and in vitro effects on astroglial cells

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-19

  Burry, Mark ^a   Guizzetti, Marina ^a   Oberdoerster, Jan ^b   Costa, Lucio G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Aventis CropScience   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Developmental neurotoxicity; Fetal solvent syndrome; Glial cells; Toluene

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; TOLUENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROCEPHALY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROTOXINS; ORGAN SIZE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE;

EID: 0042164863     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071463     Document Type: Article

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