Electromagnetic field effect or simply stress? effects of umts exposure on hippocampal longterm plasticity in the context of procedure related hormone release

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Prochnow, Nora ^a   Gebing, Tina ^a   Ladage, Kerstin ^a   Krause Finkeldey, Dorothee ^a   El Ouardi, Abdessamad ^b   Bitz, Andreas ^b,c   Streckert, Joachim ^b   Hansen, Volkert ^b   Dermietzel, Rolf ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISTATIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOBILE PHONE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEPRESSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; METABOLISM; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 79955836548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019437     Document Type: Article

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