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Author Staff, NRC Committee on Possible Effects of Electromagnetic Fields

Title Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents ""Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric And Magnetic Fields""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""OTHER REPORTS OF THE COMMISSION ON LIFE SCIENCES""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE""; ""CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE""; ""STUDY FINDINGS""; ""Epidemiology""; ""Exposure Assessment""; ""In Vitro Studies on Exposure to Electric and Magnetic Fields""; ""In Vivo Studies on Exposure to Electric and Magnetic Fields""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""SCOPE OF THE STUDY""; ""AREAS OF CONCERN""
""DEFINITIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TERMS""""Electric and Magnetic Fields""; ""Biologic Effects""; ""Health Effects""; ""Exposure Assessment in Epidemiologic Studies""; ""Risk Assessment""; ""SOURCES OF EXPOSURE""; ""Electric Power Lines""; ""Electric Appliances""; ""Transportation Systems""; ""WHY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS IS IMPORTANT""; ""RELATED REPORTS""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT""; ""2 Exposure and Physical Interactions ""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""DEFINITION OF TERMS""; ""METHODS OF EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT""; ""General Problems""
""Measurement Methods and Instrumentation""""Field Calculations""; ""TYPICAL EXPOSURES""; ""Electric Fields""; ""Residential and Environmental Magnetic Fields""; ""Residence""; ""Background Fields""; ""Appliances""; ""Personal Monitoring""; ""Environmental Fields""; ""Power Lines (Transmission and Distribution)""; ""Occupational Magnetic Fields""; ""Workplace""; ""Personal Monitoring""; ""Transportation""; ""Transients""; ""EXPOSURES IN EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES""; ""Residential""; ""Wire Codes""; ""Calculations""; ""Distance""; ""Measurements""; ""Occupational""
""EXPOSURES IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS""""Animal and Cellular Studies""; ""In Vivo Studies""; ""In Vitro Studies""; ""INDUCED FIELDS AND CURRENTS""; ""Electric-Field Exposure""; ""Magnetic-Field Exposure""; ""3 Cellular and Molecular Effects ""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""UTILITY AND LIMITATIONS OF IN VITRO STUDIES""; ""GENOTOXICITY AND CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL OF POWER-FREQUENCY ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS""; ""EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF IN VITRO EFFECTS""; ""Heritable Changes in Cells Exposed In Vitro to Electric and Magnetic Fields""
""Transient Changes in Cells Exposed In Vitro to Electric and Magnetic Fields""""Signal Transduction""; ""Gene Expression and Protein Synthesis""; ""Calcium Changes""; ""4 Animal and Tissue Effects ""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERATION OF LITERATURE""; ""USE OF ANIMAL STUDIES IN EVALUATING RISK""; ""Types of Animal Studies Used in Descriptive Toxicology""; ""Acute Lethality""; ""Repeated-Dose Studies""; ""Subchronic Toxicity Studies""; ""Chronic Toxicity Studies""; ""Developmental and Reproductive Studies""
Notes ""Cocarcinogenicity and Copromotion Studies of Electric and Magnetic Fields""
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Subject Electromagnetic fields -- Health aspects
Electromagnetism -- Physiological effect.
Electromagnetic fields -- Health aspects.
Electromagnetism -- Physiological effect.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309556712
0309556716