Memory deficits associated with sublethal cyanide poisoning relative to cyanate toxicity in rodents

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-112

  Kimani, S ^a   Sinei, K ^a   Bukachi, F ^a   Tshala Katumbay, D ^b   Maitai, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassava; Cognition; Cyanate; Cyanide

Indexed keywords

CYANIC ACID; CYANIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; CYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CYANATE; SODIUM CYANIDE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASSAVA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANIDE POISONING; CYANOGENESIS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MANIHOT; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; POISONOUS PLANT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CYANATES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MANIHOT; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PLANTS, TOXIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CYANIDE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84895873499     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-013-9459-2     Document Type: Article

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