Cognitive deficits induced by melamine in rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 276-280

  An, Lei ^a   Li, Zhanyong ^a   Yang, Zhuo ^b   Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive deficit; Long term potentiation; Melamine; Morris water maze; Wistar rats

Indexed keywords

MELAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRIAZINES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 80052581232     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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