Effects of 900 MHz GSM wireless communication signals on DMBA-induced mammary tumors in rats

Radiation Research

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 174-180

  Yu, Da ^a   Shen, Yonghao ^a   Kuster, Niels ^b   Fu, Yiti ^a   Chiang, Huai ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMARY GLAND; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOBILE PHONE; MULTIPLE CANCER; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; CARCINOGENS; CELLULAR PHONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICROWAVES; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31444442970     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3497.1     Document Type: Article

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