Chronic, low-dose prenatal exposure to methylmercury impairs motor and mnemonic function in adult C57/B6 mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-61

  Montgomery, Karienn S ^a   Mackey, Jessica ^b   Thuett, Kerry ^c   Ginestra, Stephanie ^c   Bizon, Jennifer L ^a   Abbott, Louise C ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue learning; Locomotor activity; Morris water maze; Open field activity; Rotarod; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MERCURIALISM; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAROD TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 43249116787     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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