Effect of head-only sub-chronic and chronic exposure to 900-MHz GSM electromagnetic fields on spatial memory in rats

Brain Injury

Volumn 22, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 1021-1029

  Ammari, Mohamed ^a,b   Jacquet, Aurelie ^a   Lecomte, Anthony ^a   Sakly, Mohsen ^b   Abdelmelek, Hafedh ^b   de Seze, Rene ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^b University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Brain; Mobile phones; Radial arm maze; Rat; Spatial memory task

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HABITUATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 65449140898     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050802530599     Document Type: Article

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