Effects of extremely low frequency magnetic field on anxiety level and spatial memory of adult rats

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 3362-3366

  He, Li Hua ^a   Shi, Hong Mei ^b   Liu, Tong Tong ^c   Xu, Ying Chun ^a   Ye, Kang Ping ^a   Wang, Sheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Chinese Center for Health Education   (China)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Extremely low frequency magnetic field; Morris water maze test; Open field test; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELD; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80054857540     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2011.20.028     Document Type: Article

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