Lead neurotoxicity in children: basic mechanisms and clinical correlates.

doi:10.1093/brain/awg014

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Lead neurotoxicity in children: basic mechanisms and clinical correlates.

Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Jan 2003

Lidsky Theodore I, Schneider Jay S

Abstract excerpt

Lead has been recognized as a poison for millennia and has been the focus of public health regulation in much of the developed world for the better part of the past century. The nature of regulation has evolved in response to increasing information provided by vigorous scientific investigation of lead's effects. In recognition of the particular sensitivity of the developing brain to lead's pernicious effects,...

Topics

Apoptosis
Bone and Bones
Brain
Calcium Signaling
Child
Child, Preschool
Cognition Disorders
Environmental Exposure
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Heme
Humans
Infant
Lead
Lead Poisoning, Nervous System, Childhood
Maternal Exposure
Maximum Allowable Concentration
Neuroglia

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PMID: 12477693
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg014

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