Mutagenic potential of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields

Cytologia

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-43

  Othman, Othman E ^a   Aly, Magdy S ^b   El Nahas, Soheir M ^a   Mohamed, Hanaa M ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberrations; EMF exposure; Mitotic index; SCEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037363727     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.68.35     Document Type: Article

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