title: Humoral (immunological) responses in female albino rats during rotating magnetic field exposures.
abstract: Experiments were designed to evaluate the primary and secondary humoral responses to a rotating magnetic field configuration, which is known to evoke significant biobehavioral changes. Ten days after inoculation with human serum albumin and 10 days before a booster, female rats were exposed to either a 0.5 Hz rotating magnetic field (RMF) or to room conditions (control). The lighting schedule was either continuous or involved a light-dark cycle (LD) of 12:12 h. A third group of rats served as colony room controls. Group differences of low statistical significance were found when females were exposed to continuous lighting rather than the LD 12:12 light-dark cycle. However, the effects were considered trivial and not sufficient to explain the previously reported biobehavioral changes evoked by this field configuration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Falter
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Persinger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008027:Light; D008280:Magnetics; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D012709:Serum Albumin