Two-year chronic bioassay study of rats exposed to a 1.6 GHz radiofrequency signal

Radiation Research

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-210

  Anderson, Larry E ^a   Sheen, David M ^a   Wilson, Bary W ^a   Grumbein, Sondra L ^a   Creim, Jeffery A ^a   Sasser, Lyle B ^a  

^a BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SURVIVAL TIME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PREGNANCY; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4143094732     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3208     Document Type: Article

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