Evaluation of the potential genotoxic effects of rTMS on the rat brain and current density mapping

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 482-491

  de Sauvage, R Charlet ^a   Lagroye, I ^a   Billaudel, B ^a   Veyret, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Current density map; Depression; Motor threshold; Rat; rTMS

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DENSITY; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EVALUATION; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 37549031000     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.09.137     Document Type: Article

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