Athymic nude mice are insensitive to low-level toluene-induced up-regulation of memory-related gene expressions in the hippocampus

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 957-964

  Win Shwe, Tin Tin ^a   Tsukahara, Shinji ^a   Ahmed, Sohel ^a   Fukushima, Atsushi ^a   Yamamoto, Shoji ^a   Kakeyama, Masaki ^a   Nakajima, Daisuke ^a   Goto, Sumio ^a   Kobayashi, Takahiro ^a   Fujimaki, Hidekazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Memory; NMDA receptor; Nude mice; T cells; Toluene

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CD3 ANTIGEN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) IV; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34948884466     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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