Effects of head-only exposure of rats to GSM-900 on blood-brain barrier permeability and neuronal degeneration

Radiation Research

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 359-367

  De Gannes, Florence Poulletier ^a   Billaudel, Bernard ^a   Taxile, Murielle ^a   Haro, Emmanuelle ^a   Ruffi, Gilles ^a   Lvêque, Philippe ^b   Veyret, Bernard ^a,c   Lagroye, Isabelle ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^c Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CRESYL VIOLET; DYE; FLOURO JADE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEAD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOBILE PHONE; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CELLULAR PHONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEAD; MALE; MICROWAVES; NEURONS; PERMEABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 70349895378     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1578.1     Document Type: Article

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