Effects on rat testis of 1.95-GHz W-CDMA for IMT-2000 cellular phones

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 204-209

  Imai, Norio ^a,b   Kawabe, Mayumi ^b   Hikage, Takashi ^c   Nojima, Toshio ^c   Takahashi, Satoru ^a   Shirai, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Daiyukai Research Institute for Medical Science   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

electromagnetic field; rat; testis; toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPOSURE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 80052114569     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2010.544839     Document Type: Article

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