Chronic exposure to GSM 1800-MHz microwaves reduces excitatory synaptic activity in cultured hippocampal neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 398, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-257

  Xu, Shujun ^a   Ning, Wei ^a   Xu, Zhengping ^a   Zhou, Suya ^a   Chiang, Huai ^a   Luo, Jianhong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

AMPA receptors; GSM microwaves; Hippocampal neuron; mEPSC; PSD95; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROWAVES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33646362307     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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