Constant magnetic field of 50 mT does not affect weight gain and blood glucose level in BALB/c mice

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Abbasi, Mehrshad ^a   Nakhjavani, Manouchehr ^a   Hamidi, Sepehr ^a   Tarafdari, Azam Manshadi ^a   Esteghamati, Alireza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; Blood glucose; Constant magnetic field; Permanent magnets; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FEMALE; MAGNETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 34447116947     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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