Methylmercury exposure during early Xenopus laevis development affects cell proliferation and death but not neural progenitor specification

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-113

  Huyck, Ryan W ^a   Nagarkar, Maitreyi ^a,b   Olsen, Nina ^a,c   Clamons, Samuel E ^a,d   Saha, Margaret S ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methylmercury; Neurodevelopment; Teratology; Toxicity; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; METHYLMERCURY; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELTA GENE; DENSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; EN2 GENE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GAD GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PCNA GENE; SOX2 GENE; SPINAL CORD; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XGAT GENE; XVGLUT GENE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEUROGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84920196543     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: 18729738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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