Perinatal exposure to bisphenol A enhances contextual fear memory and affects the serotoninergic system in juvenile female mice

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 709-716

  Matsuda, Shingo ^a,b   Matsuzawa, Daisuke ^a   Ishii, Daisuke ^a   Tomizawa, Haruna ^a   Sajiki, Junko ^a   Shimizu, Eiji ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

BPA; Fear; Serotonin; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; SEROTONIN; SERTRALINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MAOA GENE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SLC6A4 GENE; TPH2 GENE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84878257136     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.03.016     Document Type: Article

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