Delayed response in the rat frontal lobe transcriptome to perinatal exposure to the flame retardant BDE-47

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 477-483

  Suvorov, Alexander ^a,b   Takser, Larissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Genomics; Microarray; Neurodevelopment; PBDE; Rat

Indexed keywords

FLAME RETARDANT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA EXTRACTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEUROGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79960724321     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: 10991263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.1667     Document Type: Article

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