Gulf War illness: Effects of repeated stress and pyridostigmine treatment on blood-brain barrier permeability and cholinesterase activity in rat brain

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-214

  Amourette, Christine ^a   Lamproglou, Ioannis ^b   Barbier, Laure ^a   Fauquette, William ^a   Zoppe, Amélie ^a   Viret, Roselyne ^a   Diserbo, Michel ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Central nervous system; Cholinesterase; Gulf War illness; Pyridostigmine bromide; Repeated stress; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; MALE; PERMEABILITY; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 67649649930     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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