Inherited effects of low-dose exposure to methylmercury in neural stem cells

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 383-390

  Bose, Raj ^a   Onishchenko, Natalia ^a   Edoff, Karin ^a   Lang, Ann Marie Janson ^a   Ceccatelli, Sandra ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Developmental neurotoxicity; Epigenetics; Neural stem cells; Proliferation; Senescence; Stereology

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; MERCURY; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLMERCURY; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P21;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENESCENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CELL AGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; DNA METHYLATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FLUOXETINE; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84869465982     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs257     Document Type: Article

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