Lymphocyte subset analyses in blood, spleen and lymph nodes of female Sprague-Dawley rats after short or prolonged exposure to a 50 Hz 100-μT magnetic field

Radiation Research

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 436-443

  Thun Battersby, Susanne ^a   Westermann, Jürgen ^b   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MACROPHAGE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPH NODES; MAGNETICS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0032829357     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3580229     Document Type: Article

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