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Original Article

Decreased Density of Neurons in the Medial Preoptic Nucleus and Increased Testicular Weights for Rats Exposed Perinatally to an 0.5 Hz Rotating Magnetic Field

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Pages 99-107 | Received 11 Sep 2000, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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