Absence of mutagenic effects of 2.45 GHz radiofrequency exposure in spleen, liver, brain, and testis of lacZ-transgenic mouse exposed in utero

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-103

  Ono, Tetsuya ^f   Saito, Yusuke ^f   Komura, Jun Ichiro ^f   Ikehata, Hironobu ^f   Tarusawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Nojima, Toshio ^a,b   Goukon, Katsuo ^c   Ohba, Yoshifumi ^c   Wang, Jianqing ^d   Fujiwara, Osamu ^d   Sato, Risaburo ^e  

^a NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e SATO RESEARCH Lab   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA alteration; Fetal exposure; Mutation; Radiofrequency field

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER DISEASE; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; SPLEEN DISEASE; TESTIS DISEASE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; DNA; FEMALE; LAC OPERON; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROWAVES; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; RADIO WAVES; SPLEEN; TESTIS;

EID: 11144354821     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.202.93     Document Type: Article

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