Five-tesla static magnetic fields suppress food and water consumption and weight gain in mice

Industrial Health

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 347-357

  Tsuji, Yoko ^a   Nakagawa, Masayoshi ^b   Suzuki, Yuji ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood chemistry; Body mass; Food intake; Rodent; Static magnetic fields; Water intake

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029859092     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.34.347     Document Type: Article

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