Anticancer effects on leiomyosarcoma-bearing Wistar rats after electromagnetic radiation of resonant radiofrequencies

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 95-101

  Avdikos, Antonios ^a   Karkabounas, Spyridon ^a   Metsios, Apostolos ^a   Kostoula, Olga ^a   Havelas, Konstantinos ^b   Binolis, Jayne ^a   Verginadis, Ioannis ^a   Hatziaivazis, George ^b   Simos, Ioannis ^a   Evangelou, Angelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Center for Energy Frequencies Studies in Physical and Mental Balance   (Greece)

Author keywords

Leiomyosarcoma cells; Radiofrequency waves; Sarcomas; Static electromagnetic fields; Wistar rats

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; NONHUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AORTA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEOPLASMS; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548359268     PISSN: 11081430     EISSN: 17905427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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