Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke during pregnancy in rats yields less effect on indices of brain cell number and size than does postnatal exposure

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-27

  Gospe Jr , Sidney M ^a,b   Joyce, John A ^a   Siebert, Joseph R ^a   Jack, Rhona M ^a   Pinkerton, Kent E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Environmental tobacco smoke; Fetus; Rat; Sidestream smoke

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DNA; PROTEIN; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OSSIFICATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; RHESUS MONKEY; SKELETON;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; COTININE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NICOTINE; ORGAN SIZE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMOKING;

MACACA MULATTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PRIMATES; RATTUS;

EID: 58749084473     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2008.11.049     Document Type: Article

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