Magnetic field exposure increases cell proliferation but does not affect melatonin levels in the mammary gland of female sprague Dawley rats

Cancer Research

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1356-1363

  Fedrowitz, Maren ^a   Westermann, Jurgen ^b   Loscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MELATONIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER MODEL; CANCER RISK; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETICS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MELATONIN; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0036494499     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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