Influence of 50 Hz magnetic field on sex hormones and other fertility parameters of adult male rats

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-131

  Al Akhras, Moh'd Ali ^a,b   Darmani, Homa ^b   Elbetieha, Ahmed ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Fertility; Magnetic fields; Male rats; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HORMONES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EXPOSED TO; EXPOSURE PERIOD; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS; FERTILITY; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MALE RATS; SERUM LEVELS; SEX HORMONES; SINUSOIDAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS;

RATS;

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS WEIGHT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPERMATOZOON; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, MALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33644860778     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20186     Document Type: Article

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