Biochemical, histological, and memory impairment effects of chronic copper toxicity: A model for non-wilsonian brain copper toxicosis in Wistar rat

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 257-268

  Pal, Amit ^a   Badyal, Rama Kumari ^a   Vasishta, Rakesh Kumar ^a   Attri, Savita Verma ^a   Thapa, Babu Ram ^a   Prasad, Rajendra ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cognition; Copper intoxication; Hippocampus; Neurobehavioral

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; COPPER; RHODANINE; ZINC;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TOXICITY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SWELLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHRONIC TOXICITY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION DISORDER; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER BRAIN LEVEL; COPPER LIVER LEVEL; COPPER METABOLISM; COPPER TOXICITY; COPPER URINE LEVEL; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CELL; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; URINE LEVEL; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC BRAIN LEVEL; ZINC LIVER LEVEL; ZINC URINE LEVEL; ANIMAL; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; LD 50; PATHOLOGY; TOXICITY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAIN; COPPER; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84878383734     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: 15590720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-013-9665-0     Document Type: Article

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