Executive Function Deficits and Social-Behavioral Abnormality in Mice Exposed to a Low Dose of Dioxin In Utero and via Lactation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Endo, Toshihiro ^a   Kakeyama, Masaki ^a   Uemura, Yukari ^b   Haijima, Asahi ^a,c   Okuno, Hiroyuki ^a   Bito, Haruhiko ^a   Tohyama, Chiharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL INFLEXIBILITY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SOCIOPATHY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; LACTATION; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

MUS;

EID: 84871245331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050741     Document Type: Article

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