Increased DNA synthesis in INIT/10T 1/2 cells after exposure to a 60 Hz magnetic field: A magnetic-field or a thermal effect?

Radiation Research

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 201-208

  Zhao, Ya Li ^a   Johnson, Patricia G ^a   Jahreis, Gerald P ^a   Hui, Sek Wen ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; DNA; RETINOL ACETATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTACT INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SYNTHESIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FIBROBLAST; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FIBROBLASTS; HEAT; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344629236     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579771     Document Type: Article

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