Indication of cocarcinogenic potential of chronic UMTS-modulated radiofrequency exposure in an ethylnitrosourea mouse model

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 529-541

  Tillmann, Thomas ^a   Ernst, Heinrich ^a   Streckert, Joachim ^b   Zhou, Yi ^b   Taugner, Felicitas ^a   Hansen, Volkert ^b   Dasenbrock, Clemens ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

B6C3F1 mice; cancer; cellular phone; electromagnetic fields; ENU; ethylnitrosourea; health effects; UMTS

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR PHONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77954301780     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09553001003734501     Document Type: Article

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