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Effects of head-only exposure of rats to GSM-900 on blood-brain barrier permeability and neuronal degeneration.

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de Gannes FP, Billaudel B, Taxile M, Haro E, Ruffié G, Lévêque P, Veyret B, Lagroye I. · 2009

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This replication study found no brain damage from 2-hour cell phone radiation exposure, contradicting earlier alarming findings.

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Researchers exposed rats to cell phone radiation (GSM-900) for 2 hours and checked for brain damage 14 and 50 days later. They found no evidence of blood-brain barrier leakage or neuronal death at exposure levels ranging from very low to high. This study directly contradicted earlier research that claimed similar exposures caused significant brain damage.

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The present study investigated Effects of head-only exposure of rats to GSM-900 on blood-brain barrier permeability and neuronal degeneration.

In our study, 16 Fischer 344 rats (14 weeks old) were exposed head-only to the GSM-900 signal for 2 ...

No apoptotic neurons were found 14 days after the last exposure using the TUNEL method. No statistic...

The findings of our study did not confirm the previous results of Salford et al.

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de Gannes FP, Billaudel B, Taxile M, Haro E, Ruffié G, Lévêque P, Veyret B, Lagroye I. (2009). Effects of head-only exposure of rats to GSM-900 on blood-brain barrier permeability and neuronal degeneration. Radiat Res. 172(3):359-367, 2009.
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@article{fp_2009_effects_of_headonly_exposure_2998,
  author = {de Gannes FP and Billaudel B and Taxile M and Haro E and Ruffié G and Lévêque P and Veyret B and Lagroye I.},
  title = {Effects of head-only exposure of rats to GSM-900 on blood-brain barrier permeability and neuronal degeneration.},
  year = {2009},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19708785/},
}

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Researchers exposed rats to cell phone radiation (GSM-900) for 2 hours and checked for brain damage 14 and 50 days later. They found no evidence of blood-brain barrier leakage or neuronal death at exposure levels ranging from very low to high. This study directly contradicted earlier research that claimed similar exposures caused significant brain damage.