Prenatal lead exposure and schizophrenia: Further evidence and more neurobiological connections

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Guilarte, Tomás R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE; DEXTRO SERINE; GLYCINE; LEAD; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PHENCYCLIDINE;

COGNITIVE DEFECT; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; LEARNING DISORDER; LETTER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 66349098045     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800484     Document Type: Letter

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