A potential multiple resonance mechanism by which weak magnetic fields affect molecules and medical problems: The example of melatonin and experimental "multiple sclerosis"

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 811-815

  Persinger, Michael A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; MELATONIN; PROTON;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPILEPSY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MELATONIN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31844437326     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.044     Document Type: Article

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