Whole body exposure to 2.4GHz WIFI signals: Effects on cognitive impairment in adult triple transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (3xTg-AD)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 197-201

  Banaceur, Sana ^a   Banasr, Sihem ^a   Sakly, Mohsen ^a   Abdelmelek, Hafedh ^a  

^a Struggle and Prevention   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Electromagnetic fields; Memory; Transgenic mice (3xTg AD)

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRESENILIN-1; RADIO WAVES; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84871477484     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.11.021     Document Type: Article

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