Title :
Notice of Retraction
Effects of Atrazine on Potassium Currents of Cortical Neurons of Rats
Author :
Weiwei Zhang ; Shumei Mu ; Xinwei Wang ; Xiaoqing Yu ; Cui Qi
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Basic Med. Sci., HeBei Univ., Baoding, China
Abstract :
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
As a widely used herbicide, atrazine has various ecological and physiological toxicity, thus long-term exposure to the environment containing the herbicide will certainly affect the functions of different bio-organisms. K+ channel widely exists in animals and plays a significant role in keeping the excitability of neurons. In this study, whole cell patch-clamp recording was used to investigate the effects of atrazine treatment in different concentrations for different time on K+ currents of cultured cortical neurons from rats. The results indicated that the K+ currents were inhibited by atrazine treatment in a dose dependent manner in cortical neurons of rats.
Keywords :
agrochemicals; biochemistry; bioelectric phenomena; brain; cellular biophysics; ecology; electrochemistry; inhibitors; molecular biophysics; neurophysiology; positive ions; potassium; toxicology; K+ channel; atrazine effects; bio-organisms; ecological toxicity; long-term herbicide exposure; physiological toxicity; potassium currents; rat cortical neurons; Electric potential; In vitro; Neurons; Rats; Transient analysis; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5088-6
DOI :
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781387
