Chronic lead exposure reduces doublecortin-expressing immature neurons in young adult guinea pig cerebral cortex

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Huang, JuFang ^a   Huang, Kai ^a,b   Shang, Lei ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Mengqi ^c   Fan, Chun Ling ^a   Chen, Dan ^a   Yan, Xiaoxin ^a   Xiong, Kun ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shaoyang Medical College   (China)

^c Central South University   (China)

Author keywords

Doublecortin; Guinea pigs; Immature neurons; Lead exposure; Neocortex

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CASPASE 3; DOUBLECORTIN; DRINKING WATER; LEAD; LEAD ACETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MALE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CASPASE 3; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DOWN-REGULATION; FLUORESCEINS; GUINEA PIGS; LEAD; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROPEPTIDES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866324131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-82     Document Type: Article

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