Evaluation of neurotoxicity of repeated dermal application of chlorpyrifos on hippocampus of adult mice

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-216

  Mitra, Nilesh Kumar ^a   How, Hee Siong ^a   Nadarajah, Vishna D ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chlorpyrifos; Cholinesterase inhibition; Dermal toxicity; Hippocampus; Histomorphometry; Repeated exposure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHLORPYRIFOS; THIONINE; XYLENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

MUS;

EID: 57449085116     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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