No effects of GSM-modulated 900 MHz electromagnetic fields on survival rate and spontaneous development of lymphoma in female AKR/J mice

BMC Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sommer, Angela M ^a   Streckert, Joachim ^b   Bitz, Andreas K ^b   Hansen, Volkert W ^b   Lerchl, Alexander ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; LYMPHOMA; MONITORING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; WEIGHT GAIN; AKR MOUSE; ANIMAL; MOBILE PHONE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR PHONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; LYMPHOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED AKR; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED;

EID: 13144304340     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-4-77     Document Type: Article

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