Biological monitoring of non-thermal effects of mobile phone radiation: Recent approaches and challenges

Biological Reviews

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 489-500

  Gaestel, Matthias ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

cellular stress response; heat shock proteins; isothermal conditions; protein kinases; proteomics; radio frequency electromagnetic fields; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR PHONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RADIO WAVES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77954602705     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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