Prenatal exposure to 900 MHz, cell-phone electromagnetic fields had no effect on operant-behavior performances of adult rats

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 566-574

  Bornhausen, Michael ^a,c   Scheingraber, Herbert ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mobile phone; Risk; Schedules of reinforcement; Teratology

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HEALTH RISKS; RATS;

900 MHZ; CELL PHONE; PERFORMANCE; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PULSE MODULATED; RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; SCHEDULE OF REINFORCEMENT; TERATOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TELEPHONE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TELEPHONE;

EID: 0034576035     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-186X(200012)21:8<566::AID-BEM2>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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