Developmental neurotoxicity of low dose diazinon exposure of neonatal rats: Effects on serotonin systems in adolescence and adulthood

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 640-647

  Slotkin, Theodore A ^a   Ryde, Ian T ^a   Levin, Edward D ^a   Seidler, Frederic J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Diazinon; Organophosphate insecticides; Serotonin receptors; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; DIMPYLATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DIAZINON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 40749148130     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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