Chronic atrazine exposure causes disruption of the spontaneous locomotor activity and alters the striatal dopaminergic system of the male Sprague-Dawley rat

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-272

  Bardullas, Ulises ^a   Giordano, Magda ^a   Rodríguez, Verónica M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Behavior; Dopamine; Endocrine disruptors; Herbicides; Neurotoxicity; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; DOPAMINE; MONOAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 79953312247     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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