Melamine impairs spatial cognition and hippocampal synaptic plasticity by presynaptic inhibition of glutamatergic transmission in infant rats

Toxicology

Volumn 289, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 167-174

  Yang, Jiajia ^a   An, Lei ^a   Yao, Yang ^a   Yang, Zhuo ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hippocampal crfa1 neurons; Long term potential; Melamine; Spatial learning and memory; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; MELAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COGNITION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRIAZINES;

RATTUS;

EID: 80052702477     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: 18793185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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