Exposure of Sprague-Dawley rats to a 50-hertz, 100-μTesla magnetic field for 27 weeks facilitates mammary tumorigenesis in the 7,12- dimethylbenz[a]-anthracene model of breast cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3627-3633

  Thun Battersby, Susanne ^a   Mevissen, Meike ^a,b   Löscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR PROMOTION;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COCARCINOGENESIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; MAGNETICS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MELATONIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

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