Ultrawideband radiation and pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsions in rats

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 327-329

  Miller, Stephanie A ^a,c   Bronson, Maureen E ^b   Murphy, Michael R ^a  

^a USAF Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Armstrong Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast rise time; Non ionizing radiation; PTZ; Seizures; Tissue damage; Ultrashort pulse width

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; IONIZING RADIATION; TISSUE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FAST RISE TIME; NONIONIZING RADIATION; PENTYLENETETRAZOL; PULSEWIDTHS; PULSWIDTHS; SEIZURE; SEIZURE ACTIVITY; TISSUE DAMAGE; ULTRASHORT PULSE WIDTH; ULTRASHORT-PULSE;

RATS;

CONVULSANT AGENT; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; SAFETY; SEIZURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CONVULSANTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SAFETY; SEIZURES;

EID: 0032617539     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(1999)20:5<327::AID-BEM9>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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