Acute postnatal exposure to the pentaBDE commercial mixture DE-71 at 5 or 15mg/kg/day does not produce learning or attention deficits in rats

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-26

  Driscoll, Lori L ^a   Kaplan, Joshua ^a   Bucuvalas, Eleni ^a   Allen, Hunter ^a   Kraut, Joshua ^a   Fitzpatrick, Jesse ^a  

^a Department of Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Learning; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Postnatal exposure

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; DE 71; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; HYPERACTIVITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOXICITY TESTING; VISUAL FEEDBACK; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 82655169369     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: 18729738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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