A study of neurotoxic biomarkers, c-fos and GFAP after acute exposure to GSM radiation at 900MHz in the picrotoxin model of rat brains

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 478-494

  Carballo Quintas M ^a   Martinez Silva I ^a   Cadarso Suarez C ^a   Alvarez Figueiras M ^a   Ares Pena, F J ^a   Lopez Martin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

C fos; GFAP; GSM radiation; Picrotoxin

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PICROTOXIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLIA; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PALEOCORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PONTOMESENCEPHALIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUTAMEN CAUDATE COMPLEX; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; SEIZURE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PICROTOXIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RADIATION INJURIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79955787561     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: 18729711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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