Acute exposure to pulsed 2450-MHz microwaves affects water-maze performance of rats

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 52-56

  Wang, Baoming ^a,b   Lai, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute exposure; Behavior; Learning; Rats; Spatial reference memory

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; PROBES;

ACUTE EXPOSURE; BEHAVIOR; EXPOSED TO; LEARNING; MICROWAVE PULSE; PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL REFERENCE; SPATIAL REFERENCE MEMORY; TRAINING SESSIONS; WATER MAZE;

RATS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROWAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033631305     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(200001)21:1<52::AID-BEM8>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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