Developmental neurotoxicity of parathion: Progressive effects on serotonergic systems in adolescence and adulthood

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-17

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Organophosphate pesticides; Parathion; Serotonin receptors; Serotonin transporter; Sex selective neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; CHOLINESTERASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PARATHION; RADIOLIGAND; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TOXICOKINETICS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; ORGAN SIZE; PARATHION; PREGNANCY; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

RATTUS;

EID: 57249115883     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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