A current review of cypermethrin-induced neurotoxicity and nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurodegeneration

Current Neuropharmacology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-71

  Singh, Anand Kumar ^a   Tiwari, Manindra Nath ^a   Prakash, Om ^b   Singh, Mahendra Pratap ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cypermethrin; Model systems; Neurodegeneration; Neurotoxicity; Parkinson's disease; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHOLINESTERASE; CIPERMETHRIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; DNA DAMAGE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL;

EID: 84863393279     PISSN: 1570159X     EISSN: 18756190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157015912799362779     Document Type: Article

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