Effects of long-term electromagnetic field exposure on spatial learning and memory in rats med./bio.

Aim of study (acc. to author)

Background/further details

Endpoint

• cognitive/behavioral endpoints: spatial learning and memory

Exposure

• • RF
• • mobile communications
  • mobile phone

Extended view Compact view

Methods Endpoint/measurement parameters/methodology

• effects on the neurological system: neuron discharges (while the rats were in the maze; implanted microelectrode array; number of spikes and interspike intervals)
• cognitive/behavioral endpoints: spatial learning and memory (eight-arm radial maze with food in the end of four arms: completion time, number of total errors, number of correct entries, number of entries into an arm where food had been eaten, number of entries into an arm that never contained food)

Main outcome of study (acc. to author)

Study funded by

• Fundamental Research Fund for the Beijing Municipal Education Commission Science and Technology Innovation Platform, China
• National Basic Research Program (Program 973), China
• National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC), China
• Research Program of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, China

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