60 Hz magnetic fields and central cholinergic activity: Effects of exposure intensity and duration

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 284-289

  Lai, Henry ^a   Carino, Monserrat ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

60 Hz magnetic field; Cholinergic activity; Exposure duration; Frontal cortex; Hippocampus; Magnetic field intensity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

60 HZ MAGNETIC FIELD; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE DURATIONS; EXPOSURE INTENSITY; FLUX DENSITIES; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOW-INTENSITY; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MAGNETIC-FIELD INTENSITY;

RATS;

CHOLINE; SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETISM; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETICS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032616379     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(1999)20:5<284::AID-BEM4>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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