Effects of Combined Prenatal Stress and Toluene Exposure on Apoptotic Neurodegeneration in Cerebellum and Hippocampus of Rats

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 169-176

  Ladefoged, Ole ^a   Hougaard, Karin Sørig ^b   Hass, Ulla ^a   Sørensen, Ilona Krypsin ^a   Lund, Søren Peter ^b   Svendsen, Gitte Winkel ^a   Lam, Henrik Rye ^a  

^a DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; TOLUENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 1942469903     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2004.pto940403.x     Document Type: Article

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