Genotoxic effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) in cultured mammalian cells are not independently reproducible

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 626, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 42-47

  Speit, Günter ^a   Schütz, Petra ^a   Hoffmann, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; Low energy electromagnetic field; Micronucleus test; Mutation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN V 79; CHINESE HAMSTER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPOSURE; FIBROBLAST; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMET ASSAY; CRICETINAE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MUTAGENS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33845309628     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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