Lead exposure through gestation-only caused long-term learning/memory deficits in young adult offspring

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 489-495

  Yang, Yuexiong ^a   Ma, Yueming ^b   Ni, Linxian ^b   Zhao, Shengquan ^b   Li, Lijun ^b   Zhang, Jianyin ^b   Fan, Mao ^b   Liang, Chongli ^c   Cao, Jun ^a   Xu, Lin ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b Kunming Children's Hospital   (China)

^c KUNMING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Fetal exposure; Gestation; Hippocampus; Lead; Offspring; Pb; Spatial memory; Water maze

Indexed keywords

LEAD ACETATE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; LEAD POISONING; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATURATION; MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0345257350     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4886(03)00272-3     Document Type: Article

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