Alterations of nAChRs and ERK1/2 in the brains of rats with chronic fluorosis and their connections with the decreased capacity of learning and memory

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 324-329

  Liu, Yan Jie ^a   Gao, Qin ^a   Wu, Chang Xue ^a   Guan, Zhi Zhong ^a  

^a GUIZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ERK1 2; Fluorosis; Learning and memory; nAChRs; Rats

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; FLUORIDE SODIUM; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

RATTUS;

EID: 75349105460     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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