Chronic prenatal lead exposure impairs long-term memory in day old chicks

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 476, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-26

  Zhong, Zhaoming ^a   Zhang, Chunxiao ^b   Rizak, Joshua D ^c   Cui, Yonghua ^a   Xu, Shiqing ^a   Che, Yi ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chick; Embryo; Lead; Learning and memory; One trial passive avoidance learning

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; LEAD; LEAD ACETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHICKEN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HATCHING; LEAD POISONING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77952672601     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.074     Document Type: Article

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