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Mobile phone base station‐emitted radiation does not induce phosphorylation of Hsp27
Hirose H, Sakuma N, Kaji N, Nakayama K, Inoue K, Sekijima M, Nojima T, Miyakoshi J. · 2007
View Original AbstractCell phone tower radiation up to 10 times public limits didn't trigger cellular stress proteins in lab studies.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed human brain and lung cells to cell phone tower radiation at levels up to 10 times higher than public safety limits to test whether it triggers heat shock proteins (cellular stress markers). After continuous exposure for up to 48 hours, they found no increase in these stress proteins compared to unexposed cells. This suggests that cell phone tower radiation at these levels doesn't cause detectable cellular stress responses.
Study Details
An in vitro study focusing on the effects of low‐level radiofrequency (RF) fields from mobile radio base stations employing the International Mobile Telecommunication 2000 (IMT‐2000) cellular system was conducted to test the hypothesis that modulated RF fields act to induce phosphorylation and overexpression of heat shock protein hsp27.
First, we evaluated the responses of human cells to microwave exposure at a specific absorption rate...
Under the RF field exposure conditions described above, no significant differences in the expression...
Our results confirm that exposure to low‐level RF field up to 800 mW/kg does not induce phosphorylation of hsp27 or expression of hsp gene family.
Show BibTeX
@article{h_2007_mobile_phone_base_stationemitted_2762,
author = {Hirose H and Sakuma N and Kaji N and Nakayama K and Inoue K and Sekijima M and Nojima T and Miyakoshi J.},
title = {Mobile phone base station‐emitted radiation does not induce phosphorylation of Hsp27},
year = {2007},
doi = {10.1002/bem.20277},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.20277},
}