Gender- and age-specific impairment of rat performance in the Morris water maze following prenatal exposure to an MRI magnetic field

Brain Research

Volumn 995, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 140-144

  Jiang, Ma Li ^a   Han, Tai Zhen ^a   Pang, Wei ^a   Li, Liang ^b,c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Magnetic field; Magnetic resonance imaging; Morris water maze; Prenatal exposure; Sexual difference; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

EID: 0344009501     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2003.09.060     Document Type: Article

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