Lack of adverse effects of whole-body exposure to a mobile telecommunication electromagnetic field on the rat fetus

Radiation Research

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-372

  Takahashi, Satoru ^a   Imai, Norio ^b   Nabae, Kyoko ^b   Wake, Kanako ^c   Kawai, Hiroki ^c   Wang, Jianqing ^d   Watanabe, So Ichi ^c   Kawabe, Mayumi ^b   Fujiwara, Osamu ^d   Ogawa, Kumiko ^a   Tamano, Seiko ^b   Shirai, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Daiyukai Research Institute for Medical Science   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; MEMORY; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TERATOGENICITY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 77749233898     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1615.1     Document Type: Article

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