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INTERACTIONS BY DIFFERENT HEAVY METALS ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM OF A DULT AND DEVELOPING MAMMALS.

Objetivo

TO ELUCIDATE THE MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF VARIOUS HEAVY METALS ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND TO INVESTIGATE SYNERGISMS AND/OR ANTAGONISMS IN EFFECTS.

/THE FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS ARE INVESTIGATED:

1) PB+CO: THE INTERACTION OF LOW LEVELS OF LEAD CARBON MONOXIDE ARE FOLLOWED IN NEW-BORN RATS, WHOSE MOTHERS HAD BEEN GIVEN LEAD FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO PREGNANCY, THROUGHOUT PREGNANCY AND FOR 90 DAYS AFTER BIRTH. CO IS ADMINISTERED CONTINUOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY;

2) PB+CD: THE INTERACTION OF LEAD AND CADMIUM IS STUDIED IN RATES;

3) JUVENILE MONKEYS ARE EXPOSED TO LEAD LEVELS;

4) THE POTENTIAL BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF ZINC IS STUDIED IN RATS GIVEN HIGH DOSES OF LEAD;

5) RATS EXPOSED TO LOW DOSES OF LEAD FROM BIRTH UNTIL LATE ADULTHOOD.

AFTER SACRIFICE, A NUMBER OF UNTRASTRUCTURAL, MORPHOMETRICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS ARE STUDIED.

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CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE
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200,Herrmann Debrouxlaan 40-42
1160 BRUXELLES
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