Rat fertility and embryo fetal development: Influence of exposure to the Wi-Fi signal

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-5

  Poulletier de Gannes, Florence ^a   Billaudel, Bernard ^a   Haro, Emmanuelle ^a   Taxile, Murielle ^a   Le Montagner, Laureline ^a   Hurtier, Annabelle ^a   Ait Aissa, Saliha ^a   Masuda, Hiroshi ^a   Percherancier, Yann ^a   Ruffié, Gilles ^a   Dufour, Philippe ^c   Veyret, Bernard ^a,b   Lagroye, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c ENSCBP ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Dams; Fertility; Males; Pups; Reproduction; Reverberation chamber; Wi Fi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; EDEMA; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FETUS; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSTATE EDEMA; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WIRELESS FIDELITY SIGNAL;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENITALIA, MALE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; RADIO WAVES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84871420939     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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