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Lack of effects on heart rate and blood pressure in ketamine-anesthetized rats briefly exposed to ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulses.

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Jauchem JR, Frei MR, Ryan KL, Merritt JH, Murphy MR · 1999

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Ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulses showed no immediate heart effects in rats, but long-term impacts remain unstudied.

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Researchers exposed anesthetized rats to ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulses (extremely brief, high-intensity bursts of electromagnetic energy) to see if it affected their heart rate and blood pressure. They found no significant changes in cardiovascular function during the brief exposures. This suggests that short-term exposure to these specific types of electromagnetic pulses may not immediately harm the cardiovascular system.

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The aim of this study is to investigate Lack of effects on heart rate and blood pressure in ketamine-anesthetized rats briefly exposed to ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulses.

Fourteen Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to pulses produced by a Bournlea ultra-wideband (UWB) puls...

Exposures at a repetition frequency of 1 kHz for 0.5 s or to repetitive pulse trains (2-s exposure p...

These results suggest that acute whole-body exposure to UWB pulses does not have a detrimental effect on the cardiovascular system.

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Jauchem JR, Frei MR, Ryan KL, Merritt JH, Murphy MR (1999). Lack of effects on heart rate and blood pressure in ketamine-anesthetized rats briefly exposed to ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulses. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 46(1):117-120, 1999.
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@article{jr_1999_lack_of_effects_on_3111,
  author = {Jauchem JR and Frei MR and Ryan KL and Merritt JH and Murphy MR},
  title = {Lack of effects on heart rate and blood pressure in ketamine-anesthetized rats briefly exposed to ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulses.},
  year = {1999},
  
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/736767},
}

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Researchers exposed anesthetized rats to ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulses (extremely brief, high-intensity bursts of electromagnetic energy) to see if it affected their heart rate and blood pressure. They found no significant changes in cardiovascular function during the brief exposures. This suggests that short-term exposure to these specific types of electromagnetic pulses may not immediately harm the cardiovascular system.