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Effects of chronic exposure of electromagnetic fields from mobile phones on hearing in rats.
Kizilay A, Ozturan O, Erdem T, Tayyar Kalcioglu M, Cem Miman M. · 2003
View Original AbstractThirty days of one-hour daily mobile phone EMF exposure caused no detectable hearing damage in rats.
Plain English Summary
Turkish researchers exposed rats to mobile phone electromagnetic fields for one hour daily over 30 days to test whether this would damage their hearing. Using sensitive hearing tests called distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), they found no measurable hearing damage in either adult rats or developing newborn rats. The study suggests that chronic mobile phone EMF exposure at these levels does not impair hearing function in the outer ear, middle ear, or cochlea (the main hearing organ).
Study Details
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of chronic exposure to EMF emitting from mobile phones on the inner ear of adult and developing rats using distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs).
EMF of mobile phones exposure was scheduled according to a sham-exposure controlled experimental des...
No measurable EMF associated changes in DPOAEs either in adult or developing rat inner ears were det...
It was concluded that chronic exposure of EMF, as long as 30 days 1 h per day, emitting from a mobile phone did not cause any hearing deterioration in adult and developing rats, at least at outer and middle ear and cochlear levels.
Show BibTeX
@article{a_2003_effects_of_chronic_exposure_3143,
author = {Kizilay A and Ozturan O and Erdem T and Tayyar Kalcioglu M and Cem Miman M.},
title = {Effects of chronic exposure of electromagnetic fields from mobile phones on hearing in rats.},
year = {2003},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12927285/},
}