Effects of prenatal exposure to a 50-hz magnetic field on one-trial passive avoidance learning in 1-day-old chicks

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 150-155

  Sun, Huaying ^a,b,c   Che, Yi ^a,d   Liu, Xiaofen ^a,b,c,e   Zhou, Dongming ^a,b   Miao, Yingda ^f   Ma, Yuanye ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BENGBU MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^f Bank Of China   (China)

Author keywords

Embryo; Isolated chick; Magnetic field (MF); One trial passive avoidance learning

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE LEARNING; EMBRYO; ISOLATED CHICK; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MEMORY RETENTION; NEWLY HATCHED CHICKS; ONE-TRIAL PASSIVE AVOIDANCE LEARNING; PASSIVE AVOIDANCES; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

ANTHRANILIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTHRANILIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHICKEN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STIMULATION; TASTE; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTHRANILIC ACIDS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHICKENS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASTE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75649144422     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20540     Document Type: Article

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