Diminished experience-dependent neuroanatomical plasticity: Evidence for an improved biomarker of subtle neurotoxic damage to the developing rat brain

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1294-1298

  Wallace, Christopher S ^a,b   Reitzenstein, Jonathon ^a   Withers, Ginger S ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Complex environment; Cortical plasticity; Developmental neurotoxicology; Methylazoxymethanol

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; THICKNESS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042474498     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6088     Document Type: Article

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