Early postnatal parathion exposure in rats causes sex-selective cognitive impairment and neurotransmitter defects which emerge in aging

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-327

  Levin, Edward D ^a   Timofeeva, Olga A ^a   Yang, Liwei ^a   Petro, Ann ^a   Ryde, Ian T ^a   Wrench, Nicola ^a   Seidler, Frederic J ^a   Slotkin, Theodore A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Aging; Memory; Organophosphates; Parathion; Radial arm maze; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINESTERASE; HEMICHOLINIUM 3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PARATHION; SEROTONIN 2 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UPREGULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEMICHOLINIUM 3; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE INHIBITORS; PARATHION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SEROTONIN; SEX PRESELECTION;

EID: 77249125781     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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