Valproate-induced developmental neurotoxicity is affected by maternal conditions including shipping stress and environmental change during early pregnancy

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 18-24

  Ogawa, Tetsuo ^a   Kuwagata, Makiko ^a,b   Hori, Yasunori ^a   Shioda, Seiji ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HATANO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; DNT; Prenatal stress; TuJ1; Valproate

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOREBRAIN; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 35348974094     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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