Evaluation of developmental neurotoxicity: Some important issues focused on neurobehavioral development

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 206-210

  Dubovický, Michal ^a   Kovaèovský, Pavel ^b   Ujházy, Eduard ^a   Navarová, Jana ^a   Brucknerová, Ingrid ^c   Mach, Mojmir ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c Bratislava   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

behavior; behavioral disorders; brain; endocrine system; habituation; neurobehavioral development; neurobehavioral toxicity; open field; rodents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995875530     PISSN: 13376853     EISSN: 13379569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10102-010-0042-y     Document Type: Article

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