Histologic study of the internal organs of rats chronically exposed to a high‐intensity electric field

Y. J. Seto Electroscience and Biophysics Research Laboratories, School of Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118

D. Majeau‐Chargois Electroscience and Biophysics Research Laboratories, School of Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118

J. R. Lymangrover Electroscience and Biophysics Research Laboratories, School of Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118

W. P. Dunlap Electroscience and Biophysics Research Laboratories, School of Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118

S. T. Hsieh Electroscience and Biophysics Research Laboratories, School of Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118

Abstract

The effect of 120‐day exposure to a high‐intensity (80 kV/m), 60‐Hz electric field on histology of selected internal organs of Sprague‐Dawley rats was investigated. The organs examined were the pituitary, thymus, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, right and left adrenals, right and left kidneys, and right and left testes. Histological examination of 10‐micron tissue sections from randomly selected animals revealed no specific evidence of histopathologic differences between field‐exposed and sham‐exposed animals at the light microscopic level.

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Dr Y. J. Seto, founder of Electroscience and Biophysics Research Laboratories, died July 7, 1982 briefly after the completion of this project.

Dr. Lymangrover is currently at the Department of Physiology/Pharmacology Bowman Gray Medical School, Wake Forest University.

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