Genotoxic potential of 1.6 GHz wireless communication signal: In vivo two-year bioassay

Radiation Research

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 558-564

  Vijayalaxmi, ^a   Sasser, Lyle B ^b   Morris, James E ^b   Wilson, Bary W ^b   Anderson, Larry E ^b  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; MITOMYCIN C;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOASSAY; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; TELEPHONE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BONE MARROW; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEAD; IRIDIUM; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0037383003     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0558:GPOGWC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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