Inhalative formaldehyde exposure enhances aggressive behavior and disturbs monoamines in frontal cortex synaptosome of male rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 464, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-116

  Liu, Yi ^a   Ye, Zhanlei ^a   Luo, Hanzhi ^a   Sun, Miao ^a   Li, Mi ^a   Fan, Dongsheng ^b   Chui, Dehua ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dopamine; Frontal cortex synaptosome; Inhalative formaldehyde exposure; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MONOAMINE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; DOPAMINE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORMALDEHYDE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; RATS; SEROTONIN; SYNAPTOSOMES;

EID: 69749093172     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.037     Document Type: Article

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