The increased desire to use in vitro techniques in neurotoxicology has resulted in the search
for clonal cell lines which may be useful for studying disruption by neurotoxicants of various …

… Atchison… WD, Hare, MF Mechanisms … (WD Atchison, unpublished …

Vascular system function involves complex interactions among the vascular endothelium,
smooth muscle, the immune system, and the nervous system. The toxic metals cadmium (Cd), …

Exposure to an environmental toxicant as a risk factor in the development of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) was first hinted at (demonstrated) in the Chamorro indigenous people of …

… 5), although v-CTxMVIIC only inhibited 35.4 { 4.18% of the rise in fluores(Hare and Atchison,
1995b) and have been shown to prevent Ca2/-mediated cytotoxicity in other cells, we …

Ion channels are integral membrane proteins that are critical for neuronal function. They
form pores in the plasma membrane that allow certain ions to travel with their concentration …

Cerebellar granule cells are preferentially targeted during methylmercury (MeHg) poisoning.
Following acute MeHg exposure, granule cells in culture undergo an increase in …

… were isolated from 7-day-old Sprague–Dawley rats using a previously described protocol
(Marty and Atchison, 1997). Once removed, cerebella were digested for 15 min in 0.025% type …

… , 1992), whole-cell Ba2 currents in pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells (Shafer and Atchison, …
at the neuromuscular junction (Atchison and Narahashi, 1982; Atchison, 1986). Neonatal …

Acute exposure to low concentrations of methylmercury (MeHg) causes a severe loss of
intracellular calcium ( \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{…