Sex differences in effects of low level domoic acid exposure

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Baron, Andrew W ^a   Rushton, Steven P ^b   Rens, Natalie ^a   Morris, Christopher M ^a   Blain, Peter G ^a   Judge, Sarah J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnesic shellfish poisoning; Domoic acid; Excitotoxicity; Gender; Neurotoxicity; Sex

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DOMOIC ACID; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SCRATCHING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOTYPY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MARINE TOXINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; OLFACTORY BULB; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SHELLFISH POISONING; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84870180769     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: 18729711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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