Carcinogenicity Test in B6C3F1 Mice after Parental and Prenatal Exposure to 50 Hz Magnetic Fields

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 206-213

  Otaka, Yoshihisa ^a   Chida, Tetsuo ^a   Yamagishi, Yasuhiko ^a   Kitamura, Satoshi ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Denryoku Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

C3H HeJ mice; C57BL 6J mice; Childhood cancer; ELF; Transgenerational carcinogenicity

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAMMALS;

C3H/HEJ MOUSE; C57BL/6J MOUSE; CHILDHOOD CANCERS; ELF; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MALE MOUSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; TRANSGENERATIONAL CARCINOGENICITY;

TUMORS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENICITY; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; MAGNETISM; PREGNANCY; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; MAGNETICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036549059     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10012     Document Type: Article

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