Exposure of cultured astroglial and microglial brain cells to 900 MHz microwave radiation

Radiation Research

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 409-421

  Thorlin, Thorleif ^a,c   Rouquette, Jean Michel ^b   Hamnerius, Yngve ^b   Hansson, Elisabeth ^a   Persson, Mikael ^a,b   Björklund, Ulrika ^a   Rosengren, Lars ^a   Rönnbäck, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Institute for Clinical Neuroscience   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN RADIATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; HEALTH HAZARD; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICROGLIA; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOBILE PHONE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; ECTODYSPLASINS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROGLIA; MICROWAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS;

EID: 33746655429     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3584.1     Document Type: Article

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