Altered blood chemistry and hippocampal histomorphology in adult rats following prenatal exposure to physiologically-patterned, weak (50-500 nanoTesla range) magnetic fields

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 325-335

  St Pierre, L S ^a   Mazzuchin, A ^a,b   Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cambrian College   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood chemistry; Hippocampus; Magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; URIC ACID;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BRAIN SIZE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 41749083539     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09553000801953300     Document Type: Article

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