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Effect of whole-body exposure to the 848.5-MHz code division multiple access (CDMA) electromagnetic field on adult neurogenesis in the young, healthy rat brain.

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Kim HS, Kim YJ, Lee YH, Lee YS, Choi HD, Pack JK, Kim N, Ahn YH. · 2014

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Two weeks of cell phone radiation exposure at 2 W/kg didn't affect new brain cell formation in rats, but longer-term effects remain unknown.

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Korean researchers exposed rats to cell phone radiation at levels similar to what phones emit (2 W/kg SAR) for up to 8 hours daily over two weeks, then examined whether this affected the brain's ability to generate new neurons. They found no significant changes in new brain cell formation in two key brain regions compared to unexposed rats, suggesting that short-term CDMA cell phone radiation exposure doesn't impair neurogenesis in healthy adult brains.

Study Details

Whether exposure to the 848.5 MHz code division multiple access (CDMA) signal affects adult neurogenesis is unclear.

An animal experiment was performed with a reverberation chamber designed as a whole-body CDMA exposu...

We found no significant changes in the number of BrdU(+) cells in the SVZ or DG in the CDMA-exposed ...

Our results suggest that exposure to the CDMA signal does not affect neurogenesis in the adult rat brain, at least under our experimental conditions.

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Kim HS, Kim YJ, Lee YH, Lee YS, Choi HD, Pack JK, Kim N, Ahn YH. (2014). Effect of whole-body exposure to the 848.5-MHz code division multiple access (CDMA) electromagnetic field on adult neurogenesis in the young, healthy rat brain. Int J Radiat Biol. 2014 Dec 15:1-15.
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@article{hs_2014_effect_of_wholebody_exposure_2769,
  author = {Kim HS and Kim YJ and Lee YH and Lee YS and Choi HD and Pack JK and Kim N and Ahn YH.},
  title = {Effect of whole-body exposure to the 848.5-MHz code division multiple access (CDMA) electromagnetic field on adult neurogenesis in the young, healthy rat brain.},
  year = {2014},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25510255/},
}

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Korean researchers exposed rats to cell phone radiation at levels similar to what phones emit (2 W/kg SAR) for up to 8 hours daily over two weeks, then examined whether this affected the brain's ability to generate new neurons. They found no significant changes in new brain cell formation in two key brain regions compared to unexposed rats, suggesting that short-term CDMA cell phone radiation exposure doesn't impair neurogenesis in healthy adult brains.