Effects of exposure to GSM mobile phone base station signals on salivary cortisol, alpha-amylase, and immunoglobulin A

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-207

  Augner, Christoph ^a   Hacker, Gerhard W ^a   Oberfeld, Gerd ^b   Florian, Matthias ^a   Hitzl, Wolfgang ^a   Hutter, Jörg ^c   Pauser, Gernot ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Public Health Authority Salzburg   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cortisol; GSM base stations; Mobile phone; Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF); Salivary IgAAlpha amylase

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956567073     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-3988(10)60053-0     Document Type: Article

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