Exposure of neonatal rats to parathion elicits sex-selective impairment of acetylcholine systems in brain regions during adolescence and adulthood

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1308-1314

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Brain development; Organophosphate insecticides; Parathion

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DIMPYLATE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PARATHION; INSECTICIDE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

RATTUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; MALE; PARATHION; RATS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 55949133560     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11451     Document Type: Article

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