Morphological alteration of the hippocampal synapses in rats prenatally exposed to magnetic resonance imaging magnetic fields

Acta Physiologica Sinica

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 705-710

  Jiang, Ma Li ^a   Han, Tai Zhen ^a   Yang, Dong Wei ^a   Chen, Ming Xia ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Delayed effects of prenatal exposure; Hippocampus; Learning; Magnetic fields; Magnetic resonance imaging; Memory; Synapse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0346963152     PISSN: 03710874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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