Lead-induced effects on learning/memory and fear/anxiety are correlated with disturbances in specific cholinesterase isoform activity and redox imbalance in adult brain

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-122

  Ferlemi, Anastasia Varvara ^a   Avgoustatos, Dionisis ^a   Kokkosis, Alexandros G ^a   Protonotarios, Vasilis ^b   Constantinou, Caterina ^a,c   Margarity, Marigoula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Lavrion Technology and Cultural Park   (Greece)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Anxiety like behavior; Correlation analysis; Lead; Learning memory; Redox balance

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE G1; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE G4; DRINKING WATER; GLUTATHIONE; LEAD; MALONALDEHYDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOENZYME;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR TEST; FEAR; FLUOROMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEAD POISONING; LEARNING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEP-THROUGH PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; THIGMOTAXIS TEST; ANIMAL; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; MEMORY DISORDERS; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; FEAR; GLUTATHIONE; ISOENZYMES; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, ADULT; LEARNING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84899840182     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.04.033     Document Type: Article

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