Chromosomal damage in human diploid fibroblasts by intermittent exposure to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 585, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 43-49

  Winker, Robert ^a   Ivancsits, Sabine ^a   Pilger, Alexander ^a   Adlkofer, Franz ^b   Rudiger H W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Stiftung VERUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberrations; ELF EMF; Intermittent exposure; Micronuclei

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER SINUSOID; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DIPLOIDY; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS;

EID: 22144444547     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2005.04.013     Document Type: Article

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