No evidence for genotoxic effects from 24 h exposure of human leukocytes to 1.9 GHz radiofrequency fields

Radiation Research

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 693-697

  McNamee, J P ^a   Bellier, P V ^a   Gajda, G B ^a   Lavallee B F ^a   Marro, L ^b   Lemay, E ^a   Thansandote, A ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Environmental Health Sciences Bureau   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 0037964191     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0693:NEFGEF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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