One Week of Exposure to 50 Hz, Vertical Magnetic Field Does Not Reduce Urinary 6-Sulphatoxymelatonin Excretion of Male Wistar Rats

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 245-248

  Bakos, József ^a   Nagy, Noémi ^a   Thuróczy, György ^a   Szabó, László D ^a  

^a National Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Extremely low frequency; Melatonin metabolite; Nocturnal urine

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; HORMONES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHYSIOLOGY; RATS;

CREATININE CONCENTRATION; DARK CONDITIONS; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MELATONIN METABOLITE; NOCTURNAL URINE; RAT URINE; URINE COLLECTION; VERTICAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; WISTAR RAT;

METABOLITES;

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; CREATININE; IODINE 125; MELATONIN; 6-SULFATOXYMELATONIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; EXPOSURE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; METABOLITE; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; MAGNETISM; METABOLISM; PHOTOPERIODICITY; TIME; URINE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MELATONIN; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHOTOPERIOD; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036550626     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10014     Document Type: Article

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