A test of lymphoma induction by long-term exposure of Eμ-Pim1 transgenic mice to 50 Hz magnetic fields

Radiation Research

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 300-307

  Harris, Alan W ^a   Basten, Antony ^b   Gebski, Val ^b   Noonan, Denise ^c   Finnie, John ^d   Bath, Mary L ^a   Bangay, Michael J ^e   Repacholi, Michael H ^f  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d Central Veterinary Laboratory   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AGENCY   (Australia)

^f ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; KIDNEY DISEASES; LYMPHOMA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-PIM-1; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031892121     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579964     Document Type: Article

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