The effect of the prenatal and post-natal long-term exposure to 50 Hz electric field on growth, pubertal development and IGF-1 levels in female Wistar rats

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 479-487

  Dundar, Bumin ^a   Cesur, Gokhan ^a   Comlekci, Selcuk ^a   Songur, Ahmet ^b   Gokcimen, Alparslan ^a   Sahin, Onder ^b   Ulukut, Ozlem ^a   Yilmaz, H Ramazan ^a   Sutcu, Recep ^a   Calıskan, Sadettin ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

50 Hz; electric field; extremely low frequency; growth; IGF 1; puberty

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC HAZARD; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; OVARY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBERTY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; GROWTH; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PUBERTY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 70349487703     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233709345942     Document Type: Article

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