Primary brain tumor incidence in mice exposed to split-dose ionizing radiation and circularly polarized 60 Hz magnetic fields

Cancer Letters

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 149-156

  Kharazi, Alexander I ^a,b   Babbitt, Jane T ^a   Hahn, Theodore J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Geriatric Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Ionizing radiation; Magnetic fields; Mice

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IONIZING RADIATION; LIPOMA; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HAMARTOMA; INCIDENCE; LIPOMA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION, IONIZING; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032708604     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00286-4     Document Type: Article

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