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Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence in rat offspring.

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Ferreira AR, Knakievicz T, de Bittencourt Pasquali MA, Gelain DP, Dal-Pizzol F, Fernandez CE, de Almeida de Salles AA, Ferreira HB, Moreira JC. · 2006

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Prenatal exposure to cellular phone UHF-EMF increased micronuclei in offspring erythrocytes, while oxidative parameters in blood and liver and litter size were unchanged.

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Researchers used the micronucleus assay to assess chromosomal damage in erythrocytes from rat offspring exposed to non-thermal UHF-EMF from a cellular phone during embryogenesis. The irradiated group showed a significant increase in micronuclei occurrence. No significant differences were found in any oxidative parameter of offspring blood and liver. The average number of pups in each litter was not significantly altered.

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The study aimed to investigate whether UHF-EMF irradiation during pregnancy increases erythrocyte micronuclei incidence in rat offspring. Researchers measured antioxidant enzyme activity, total sulfhydryl content, protein carbonyl groups, thiobarbituric acid-reactive species, and total non-enzymatic antioxidant defense in the peripheral blood and liver.

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The aim of this study is to investigate Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence in rat offspring.

An in vivo mammalian cytogenetic test, the micronucleus (MN) assay, was used to investigate the occu...

the irradiated group showed a significant increase in MN occurrence. In order to investigate if UHF-...

Our results suggest that, under our experimental conditions, UHF-EMF is able to induce a genotoxic response in hematopoietic tissue during the embryogenesis through an unknown mechanism.

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Ferreira AR, Knakievicz T, de Bittencourt Pasquali MA, Gelain DP, Dal-Pizzol F, Fernandez CE, de Almeida de Salles AA, Ferreira HB, Moreira JC. (2006). Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence in rat offspring. Life Sci. 80(1)43-50, 2006.
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@article{ar_2006_ultra_high_frequencyelectromagnetic_field_2078,
  author = {Ferreira AR and Knakievicz T and de Bittencourt Pasquali MA and Gelain DP and Dal-Pizzol F and Fernandez CE and de Almeida de Salles AA and Ferreira HB and Moreira JC.},
  title = {Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence in rat offspring.},
  year = {2006},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16978664/},
}
PubMed: 16978664

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The study investigated UHF-EMF irradiation during pregnancy. Rat offspring were exposed to non-thermal UHF-EMF from a cellular phone during embryogenesis.
The irradiated group showed a significant increase in micronuclei occurrence.
No significant differences were found in any oxidative parameter of offspring blood and liver.
The average number of pups in each litter was not significantly altered.