Acta Vet. Brno 2017, 86: 413-419

https://doi.org/10.2754/avb201786040413

The thermal effect of 2.45 GHz microwave radiation on rat testes

Viera Almášiová1, Katarína Holovská1, Veronika Šimaiová1, Katarína Beňová2, Adam Raček2, Enikő Račeková3, Marcela Martončíková3, Jozef Mihálik4, Františka Horváthová4, Lucia Tarabová5, Tomáš Slanina6, Viera Cigánková1

1University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Physiology, Košice, Slovak Republic
2University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Department of Biology and Genetics, Košice, Slovak Republic
3Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Neurobiology, Košice, Slovak Republic
4Šafárik University, Medical Faculty, Department of Anatomy, Košice, Slovak Republic
5University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Pathological Anatomy and Pathological Physiology, Košice, Slovak Republic
6Slovak University of Agriculture, Department of Animal Physiology, Nitra, Slovak Republic

Received June 9, 2017
Accepted December 19, 2017

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