Acute low-dose melamine affects hippocampal synaptic plasticity and behavior in rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-68

  Yang, Yuan ^a,b,e   Xiong, Gui Jing ^b,c   Yu, Da Fu ^a,d   Cao, Jun ^b   Wang, Li Ping ^b   Xu, Lin ^a,b   Mao, Rong Rong ^b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d FIRST PEOPLE S HOSPITAL OF YUNNAN PROVINCE   (China)

^e KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Immobility time; Locomotor activity; Melamine; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

MELAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HEALTH HAZARD; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMMOBILIZATION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRIAZINES;

RATTUS;

EID: 84865548626     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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