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Effects of 1-week and 6-week exposure to GSM/DCS radiofrequency radiation on micronucleus formation in B6C3F1 Mice.
Gorlitz BD, Muller M, Ebert S, Hecker H, Kuster N, Dasenbrock C. · 2005
View Original AbstractCell phone radiation showed no DNA damage in mice at levels exceeding typical phone use by 15-30 times.
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Researchers exposed mice to cell phone radiation (GSM and DCS frequencies) for 2 hours daily over 1 and 6 weeks to test whether it causes DNA damage in blood cells and other tissues. They found no increase in micronuclei (tiny fragments that indicate genetic damage) in any of the cell types examined, even at radiation levels up to 33.2 mW/g. This suggests that cell phone-type radiation at these exposure levels does not cause detectable genetic damage in mice.
Study Details
The aim of this study was to examine the possible induction of micronuclei in erythrocytes of the peripheral blood and bone marrow and in keratinocytes and spleen lymphocytes of mice exposed to radiofrequency (RF) radiation for 2 h per day over periods of 1 and 6 weeks, respectively
The applied signal simulated the exposure from GSM900 and DCS1800 handsets, including the low-freque...
Exposure levels for the 1- and 6-week studies were determined in a pretest to confirm that no therma...
Furthermore, the RF-field exposure of mice did not induce an increase in the number of micronuclei in erythrocytes of the bone marrow or peripheral blood, in keratinocytes, or in spleen lymphocytes compared to the sham-treated control.
Show BibTeX
@article{bd_2005_effects_of_1week_and_3042,
author = {Gorlitz BD and Muller M and Ebert S and Hecker H and Kuster N and Dasenbrock C.},
title = {Effects of 1-week and 6-week exposure to GSM/DCS radiofrequency radiation on micronucleus formation in B6C3F1 Mice.},
year = {2005},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16187745/},
}