Selenomethionine reduces visual deficits due to developmental methylmercury exposures

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 250-260

  Weber, Daniel N ^a   Connaughton, Victoria P ^b   Dellinger, John A ^a   Klemer, David ^c   Udvadia, Ava ^a   Carvan III, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral toxicology; Bipolar cells; Mercury; Retina; Selenium; Visual response; Voltage gated potassium currents; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SELENOMETHIONINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MERCURIALISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM; ZEBRA FISH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; SELENOMETHIONINE; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 42449160706     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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