Effects of prenatal exposure to silver nanoparticles on spatial cognition and hippocampal neurodevelopment in rats

Environmental Research

Volumn 138, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-73

  Wu, Jinjin ^a   Yu, Chenghao ^a   Tan, Ying ^a   Hou, Zhen ^a   Li, Man ^b   Shao, Feng ^b   Lu, Xiaoxia ^a  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GAP 43; Hippocampus; Prenatal exposure; Rats; Silver nanoparticles; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROMODULIN; POVIDONE IODINE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NITRATE; SODIUM NITRATE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

GENE EXPRESSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RODENT; SILVER; SPATIAL COGNITION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SILVER; SPATIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84923002991     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.01.022     Document Type: Article

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