Gestational exposure to methylmercury alters the developmental pattern of trk-like immunoreactivity in the rat brain and results in cortical dysmorphology

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-31

  Barone Jr , Stan ^a   Haykal Coates, Najwa ^a   Parran, Damani K ^b   Tilson, Hugh A ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental neurotoxicology; Nerve Growth Factor recepto; Ngf; Protein phosphorylation; Trk; Tropomyosin receptor kinase

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELL SIZE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEUROGLIA; PC12 CELLS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; LAMIINAE;

EID: 0344588827     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(98)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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