Study on potential effects of "902-MHz GSM-type Wireless Communication Signals" on DMBA-induced mammary tumours in Sprague-Dawley rats

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 649, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 34-44

  Hruby, Robert ^a   Neubauer, Georg ^a   Kuster, Niels ^b   Frauscher, Michael ^a  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^b FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mammary tumours; RF exposure; Sprague Dawley rats

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; ORGAN SIZE; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TUMOR BURDEN;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 36849056586     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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