Comparative effects of extremely high power microwave pulses and a brief CW irradiation on pacemaker function in isolated frog heart slices

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 245-254

  Pakhomov, Andrei G ^a,c   Mathur, Satnam P ^a   Doyle, Joanne ^a   Stuck, Bruce E ^b   Kiel, Jonathan L ^c   Murphy, Michael R ^c  

^a Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beating rate; Frog heart rhythm; High power microwave pulses; Specific effects

Indexed keywords

HEALTH HAZARDS; IRRADIATION; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION;

BEATING RATE; BIOEFFECT; FROG HEART RHYTHM; HIGH POWER; HIGH POWER MICROWAVE PULSE; MICROWAVE PULSE; MICROWAVE-HEATING; POWER MICROWAVE; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE RISE;

HEART;

ANURA; MUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROG; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RATE; HEAT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINUS NODE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEAT; MICROWAVES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RANA CATESBEIANA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINOATRIAL NODE;

EID: 0034181947     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(200005)21:4<245::AID-BEM1>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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