Developmental effects of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 385-390

  Juutilainen, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTRIC FIELD; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERATOGENICITY;

EID: 0346264931     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006376     Document Type: Article

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