Development of an in vitro blood-brain barrier model - Cytotoxicity of mercury and aluminum

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-82

  Toimela, Tarja ^a,c   Mäenpää, Hanna ^a,b   Mannerström, Marika ^a   Tähti, Hanna ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Blood brain barrier; In vitro; Mercury

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; COLLAGEN; DYE; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; TRACER;

ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LINE; CELL TYPE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE FILTER; NERVE CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 0842346110     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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