The discovery that the avermectins and cyclodienes affected the chloride channels of
excitable membranes generated intense research interest among academic and industrial …

Behavioral end points are being used with greater frequency in neurotoxicology to detect
and characterize the adverse effects of chemicals on the nervous system. Behavioral …

The effects of lindane on behavior and central monoaminergic systems were studied in rat
pups at 15 days of postnatal age. Pups were previously given nonconvulsant lindane PO …

Carbamate pesticides like propoxur have been shown to adversely affect memory and
induce oxidative stress on both acute and chronic exposure. The present study was …

Male adult Fischer-344 rats were given various doses of lindane (0, 15, and 30 mg/kg, po),
chlordecone (0, 25, 50, or 100 mg/kg, ip), or p, p′-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (p, p …

Neurosteroids (NS) are recognized as important modulators of functioning of the nervous
system. Lindane, an organochlorine pesticide has been shown to adversely affect memory …

Although the organochlorine insecticides were widely used in agriculture and malarial
control programs from the 1940s to 1960s with dramatic benefits, they fell into disfavour …

A huge number of organic chemicals, some of them are natural products, were chlorinated
cheaply in the middle of the 20th century, giving many polychlorinated products that were …

Because hypothermia and anorexia were previously found to be more sensitive indices of
the effects of lindane than were convulsions, these endpoints were used to quantify the …

The effects of lindane, administered either IP (4, 6 or 8 mg/kg in dimethylsulfoxide, 0.5 ml/kg)
or PO (30, 40 or 50 mg/kg in oil, 1 ml/kg), were compared in male rats. Effects appeared later …