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A B Desta1, R D Owen, L W Cress
1Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, USA.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|November 5, 1999
Abstract:
Fertilized white leghorn eggs were exposed to a 4 micro-Tesla (microT) 60 Hz horizontal magnetic field for 15, 18, 23 and 28 h. After exposure to the magnetic field, the embryos were isolated and assayed for ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity. ODC activity in magnetic field-exposed embryos was compared to ODC activity in sham-exposed embryos. ODC activity in magnetic field-exposed embryos was not statistically elevated above sham-exposed embryos.
