Prenatal melamine exposure induces impairments of spatial cognition and hippocampal synaptic plasticity in male adolescent rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 78-85

  An, Lei ^a,b   Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive deficit; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Melamine; Rats

Indexed keywords

MELAMINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PAIRED PULSE FACILITATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAZE TEST; PREGNANCY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WISTAR RAT; FACILITATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; SPATIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TRIAZINES;

EID: 84907364865     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2014.07.081     Document Type: Article

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