Neonatal hypomyelination by the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Chemical and ultrastructural studies in rats

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 332-340

  Konjuh, Cintia ^a   García, Graciela ^a   López, Lidia ^b   Evangelista de duffard, Ana María ^a   Brusco, Alicia ^a   Duffard, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

2,4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid; Brain development; Herbicide; Myelin proteins; Myelin ultrastructure; Neonate rat; Neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; HERBICIDE; MYELIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALNUTRITION; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LACTATION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYELIN SHEATH; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 47849107095     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfn085     Document Type: Article

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