Lack of promoting effects of the electromagnetic near-field used for cellular phones (929.2 MHz) on rat liver carcinogenesis in a medium-term liver bioassay

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 311-314

  Imaida, Katsumi ^a   Taki, Masao ^b   Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ito, Takayasu ^a   Watanabe, So Ichi ^c   Wake, Kanako ^b   Aimoto, Atsuko ^d   Kamimura, Yoshitsugu ^e   Ito, Nobuyuki ^f   Shirai, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; TELEPHONE; TUMOR PROMOTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELATONIN; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 17544404945     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/19.2.311     Document Type: Article

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