Is fipronil safer than chlorpyrifos? Comparative developmental neurotoxicity modeled in PC12 cells

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 313-322

  Lassiter, T Leon ^a   MacKillop, Emiko A ^a   Ryde, Ian T ^a   Seidler, Frederic J ^a   Slotkin, Theodore A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorpyrifos; Fipronil; In vitro; Neurodevelopment; Organophosphate insecticides; PC12 cells; Pesticides; Phenylpyrazole insecticides; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHLORPYRIFOS; DOPAMINE; FIPRONIL;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LOSS; CELL STRAIN; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; INSECTICIDES; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PC12 CELLS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 58949105045     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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