Effects of High Power Microwave Pulses on Synaptic Transmission and Long Term Potentiation in Hippocampus

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 174-181

  Pakhomov, Andrei G ^a,c   Doyle, Joanne ^a   Stuck, Bruce E ^b   Murphy, Michael R ^c  

^a Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High power microwave pulses; Hippocampal slices; LTP; Specific effects

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

BRAIN SLICES; HIGH POWER; HIGH POWER MICROWAVE PULSE; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATIONS; MICROWAVE PULSE; POWER MICROWAVE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

IRRADIATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEATING; HIGH POWER MICROWAVE PULSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RAT; SYNAPSE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TETANUS; ANIMAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICROWAVES; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037481730     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10079     Document Type: Article

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