Autism-relevant social abnormalities in mice exposed perinatally to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields
Alsaeed I, Al-Somali F, Sakhnini L, Aljarallah OS, Hamdan RM, Bubishate SA, Sarfaraz ZK, Kamal A. · 2014
View Original AbstractMale mice exposed perinatally to ELF EMF showed a lack of normal sociability and preference for social novelty, while anxiety-like behavior, locomotion, motor coordination, and olfaction remained normal.
Plain English Summary
Researchers examined the effects of perinatal exposure to ELF EMF on autism-relevant behavioral parameters in male BALB/C mice. Exposed mice lacked normal sociability and preference for social novelty, and also showed decreased exploratory activity. The researchers concluded that the results are supportive of the hypothesis of a causal link between exposure to ELF EMF and ASD, but recommended replications with further tests.
Why This Matters
The EMF was delivered via a Helmholtz coil pair, and mice were divided into an exposed group and a control group. Exposure occurred during the last week of gestation and for 7 days after delivery. Tests were used to assess sociability, preference for social novelty, locomotion, anxiety, exploratory behavior, motor coordination, and olfaction. The exposed group contained 8 mice and the control group contained 9 mice. The researchers described their conclusions as supportive of a hypothesis of a causal link and called for replications of the study with further tests.
Exposure Details
- Magnetic Field
- 1 mT
- Source/Device
- 50 Hz
- Exposure Duration
- during the last week of gestation and during the first week after birth
Exposure Context
This study used 1 mT for magnetic fields:
- 50Kx above the Building Biology guideline of 0.2 mG
- 10Kx above the BioInitiative Report recommendation of 1 mG
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Where This Falls on the Concern Scale
Study Details
In this study we examined the effects of perinatal exposure to ELF EMF on some ASD-relevant behavioral parameters in mice.
The EMF was delivered via a Helmholtz coil pair. Male BALB/C mice were used and divided into exposed...
The exposed mice demonstrated a lack of normal sociability and preference for social novelty while m...
We concluded that these results are supportive of the hypothesis of a causal link between exposure to ELF–EMF and ASD; however, replications of the study with further tests are recommended.
Show BibTeX
@article{i_2014_autismrelevant_social_abnormalities_in_218,
author = {Alsaeed I and Al-Somali F and Sakhnini L and Aljarallah OS and Hamdan RM and Bubishate SA and Sarfaraz ZK and Kamal A.},
title = {Autism-relevant social abnormalities in mice exposed perinatally to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields},
year = {2014},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0736574814000926},
}