Sex-dimorphic effects of gestational exposure to the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos on social investigation in mice

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-39

  De Felice, Alessia ^a,b   Venerosi, Aldina ^a   Ricceri, Laura ^a   Sabbioni, Mara ^a,c   Scattoni, Maria Luisa ^a   Chiarotti, Flavia ^a   Calamandrei, Gemma ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlorpyrifos; Olfactory discrimination; Rodents; Sex differences; Social discrimination; Social investigation

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH RATE; HABITUATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR RECOGNITION TEST; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHLORPYRIFOS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MICE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84908029124     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: 18729738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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