Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence in rat offspring

Life Sciences

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-50

  Ferreira, Amâncio Romanelli ^a   Knakievicz, Tanise ^b   de Bittencourt Pasquali, Matheus Augusto ^a   Gelain, Daniel Pens ^a   Dal Pizzol, Felipe ^c   Fernández, Claudio Enrique Rodriguez ^d   de Almeida de Salles, Álvaro Augusto ^e   Ferreira, Henrique Bunselmeyer ^b   Moreira, José Cláudio Fonseca ^a  

^a Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas e da Saude Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Biotecnologia   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO EXTREMO SUL CATARINENSE   (Brazil)

^d Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica de Pelotas   (Brazil)

^e Escola de Engenharia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cellular phone; Chromosomal damage; Embryogenesis; Erythrocytes; Liver; Micronucleus; Oxidative stress; Rat offspring

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; ENZYME; PROTEIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; IRRADIATION; MALE; MAMMAL; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOBILE PHONE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RADIATION INJURY; RAT; ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; ISOENZYMES; LITTER SIZE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33751382347     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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