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Effect of chronic exposure to cellular telephone electromagnetic fields on hearing in rats.
Kayabasoglu G, Sezen OS, Eraslan G, Aydin E, Coskuner T, Unver S. · 2011
View Original AbstractMonth-long cell phone EMF exposure showed no hearing damage in rats, suggesting typical phone use may not harm inner ear function.
Plain English Summary
Turkish researchers exposed rats to cell phone electromagnetic fields for 6 hours daily over 30 days to test whether EMF radiation damages hearing. Using sensitive hearing tests that measure inner ear function, they found no changes in hearing ability in either newborn or adult rats after the month-long exposure. This suggests that typical cell phone EMF exposure may not directly harm the delicate structures of the inner ear that are responsible for hearing.
Study Details
To study the effects of the electromagnetic field emitted by cellular telephones upon the inner ear of rats, using distortion product otoacoustic emissions.
Forty Wistar Albino rats were used. Twenty newborn and 20 adult rats were divided into two groups of...
For both the newborn and adult rat groups, there was no significant difference in distortion product...
Exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by cellular telephones, for 6 hours a day for 30 consecutive days, had no effect on the hearing of newborn or adult rats, at the outer ear, middle ear or cochlear level.
Show BibTeX
@article{g_2011_effect_of_chronic_exposure_3130,
author = {Kayabasoglu G and Sezen OS and Eraslan G and Aydin E and Coskuner T and Unver S.},
title = {Effect of chronic exposure to cellular telephone electromagnetic fields on hearing in rats.},
year = {2011},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21059276/},
}