The risk of lymphoma in AKR/J mice does not rise with chronic exposure to 50 Hz magnetic fields (1 μT and 100 μT)

Radiation Research

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 194-200

  Sommer, Angela M ^a   Lerch, Alexander ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

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ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETICS; MICE; OXYGEN; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4143065733     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3219     Document Type: Article

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