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S P Kurotchenko1, T I Subbotina, I I Tuktamyshev
1State Unitary Enterprise, Institute of New Medical Technologies, Tula, Russia.
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|February 18, 2004
Abstract:
We studied the effect of nonthermal 37-GHz radiation on hemopoiesis in schungite-shielded Wistar rats. Radiation with right-handed or left-handed rotation of the polarization plane of electromagnetic wave was used. Shielding with schungite decreased the severity of damage produced by high-frequency electromagnetic radiation.
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