Neonatal exposure to low doses of diazinon: Long-term effects of neural cell development and acetylcholine systems

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 340-348

  Slotkin, Theodore A ^a   Bodwell, Bethany E ^a   Levin, Edward D ^a   Seidler, Frederic J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Brain development; Diazinon; Organophosphate insecticides

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINE TRANSPORTER; CHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DIMPYLATE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DIAZINON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 40849114680     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11005     Document Type: Article

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