Studies of 50 Hz Circularly Polarized Magnetic Fields of up to 350 μ Ton Reproduction and Embryo-Fetal Development in Rats: Exposure during Organogenesis or during Preimplantation

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 369-389

  Negishi, Tadashi ^a   Imai, Setsuo ^a   Itabashi, Masafumi ^b   Nishimura, Izumi ^a   Sasano, Takao ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Magnetic fields; Power frequency; Rat; Teratology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; DAMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TOXICITY;

BODY WEIGHT; CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FIELD EXPOSURE; MAGNETIC-FIELD; POWER FREQUENCY; SEX RATIOS; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS; TERATOLOGY;

RATS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER DISEASE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OSSIFICATION; POLARIZATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SKELETON MALFORMATION; TERATOLOGY; THYMUS DISEASE; ANIMAL; BONE; MAGNETISM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MAGNETICS; MALE; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0036653278     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10025     Document Type: Article

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