Does early life toluene exposure alter the expression of NMDA receptor subunits and signal transduction pathway in infant mouse hippocampus?

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 647-653

  Win Shwe, Tin Tin ^a   Yoshida, Yasuhiro ^b   Kunugita, Naoki ^c   Tsukahara, Shinji ^d   Fujimaki, Hidekazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Hippocampus; Mice; NMDA; Signal transduction; Toluene

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE IV; CASPASE 3; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLUENE;

MUS;

EID: 78049467888     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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