Tactical behavior of rats when choosing among negative stimuli: pain or exposure to an electromagnetic field
Davydov, B.I.; Ushakov, I.B.; Tikhonchuk, V.S.; Galkin, A.A.
Kosmicheskaia Biologiia i Aviakosmicheskaia Meditsina 18(3): 68-71
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0321-5040 PMID: 6737985 Document Number: 237092
A new experimental model of two conflicting motives has been developed and tested on rats. The motives are to escape painful stimulation and subsequent microwave irradiation at a dose rate of 500 mWt/cm2 under normal conditions and disturbed thermal regulation due to gamma irradiation of the head. It is found that microwave effects cannot be entirely attributed to the body temperature gradient.