The environmental pollutant endosulfan disrupts cerebral cortical function at low doses

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-37

  Scremin, Oscar U ^a,b,c,d   Chialvo, Dante R ^a,b,d   Lavarello, Simona ^a   Berra, Hector H ^a   Lucero, Miguel A ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Electroencephalogram; Endosulfan; Epilepsy; Evoked potentials; GABA A receptors; Organochlorine insecticides

Indexed keywords

ENDOSULFAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FOREFOOT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; INSECTICIDES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 78951487580     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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