Behavioural evidence that magnetic field effects in the land snail, Cepaea nemoralis, might not depend on magnetite or induced electric currents

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-130

  Prato, Frank S ^b,c   Kavaliers, Martin ^a   Carson, Jeffrey J L ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuation of opioid induced analgaesia; Biophysical mechanisms; ELF bioeffects

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOLLUSCS;

ATTENUATION OF OPIOID-INDUCED ANALGAESIA; BIOEFFECT; BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISM; CEPAEA NEMORALIS; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY BIOEFFECT; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS; LAND SNAILS; MAGNETIC-FIELD; OPIOIDS;

MAGNETITE;

CEPAEA NEMORALIS; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

IRON; MAGNETITE; OXIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; IRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDES; SNAILS;

EID: 0030344901     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-186x(1996)17:2<123::aid-bem6>3.0.co;2-5     Document Type: Article

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