Can T-cell deficiency affect spatial learning ability following toluene exposure?

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-134

  Win Shwe, Tin Tin ^a   Nakajima, Daisuke ^a   Fujimaki, Hidekazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Learning ability; T cells; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROGLIA; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; NEUROTOXINS; SOLVENTS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TOLUENE;

EID: 70449629773     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000258697     Document Type: Article

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