Maternal isobutyl-paraben exposure alters anxiety and passive avoidance test performance in adult male rats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-140

  Kawaguchi, Maiko ^a   Irie, Kaoru ^a   Morohoshi, Kaori ^b   Watanabe, Gen ^c,d   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^c,d   Morita, Masatoshi ^b,e   Kondo, Yasuhiko ^f   Imai, Hideki ^g   Himi, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Agriculture   (Japan)

^d GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Development; Elevated plus maze; Estrogen; Isobutyl paraben; Passive avoidance; Rat

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ESTRADIOL; ISOBUTYL PARABEN; PRESERVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARIECTOMY; PARABENS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 68949097489     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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