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Effect of exposure to 1,800 MHz electromagnetic fields on heat shock proteins and glial cells in the brain of developing rats.
Watilliaux A, Edeline JM, Lévêque P, Jay TM, Mallat M · 2011
View Original AbstractTwo-hour cell phone radiation exposure caused no immediate brain cell stress in young rats, but longer-term developmental effects remain unstudied.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed developing rat brains to cell phone radiation (1,800 MHz) for 2 hours at levels similar to what phones emit near your head. They looked for signs of cellular stress and brain cell damage one day later by measuring stress proteins and examining brain tissue. The study found no evidence of cellular stress or damage to developing brain cells at these exposure levels.
Study Details
In the present study, we quantified cell stress and glial responses in the brain of developing rats one day after a single exposure of 2 h to a GSM 1,800 MHz signal at a brain average Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) in the range of 1.7 to 2.5 W/kg.
Young rats, exposed to EMF on postnatal days (P) 5 (n = 6), 15 (n = 5) or 35 (n = 6), were compared ...
The GSM signal had no significant effect on the abundance of HSP60, HSC70 or HSP90, of serine racema...
These results provide no evidence for acute cell stress or glial reactions indicative of early neural cell damage, in developing brains exposed to 1,800 MHz signals in the range of SAR used in our study.
Show BibTeX
@article{a_2011_effect_of_exposure_to_2819,
author = {Watilliaux A and Edeline JM and Lévêque P and Jay TM and Mallat M},
title = {Effect of exposure to 1,800 MHz electromagnetic fields on heat shock proteins and glial cells in the brain of developing rats. },
year = {2011},
doi = {10.1007/s12640-010-9225-8},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12640-010-9225-8},
}