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Effects of 1950 MHz radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on Aβ processing in human neuroblastoma and mouse hippocampal neuronal cells.
Park J, Kwon JH, Kim N, Song K · 2017
View Original AbstractShort-term cell phone radiation showed no immediate effects on Alzheimer's-related brain proteins, but long-term impacts remain unknown.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed brain cells to cell phone radiation (1950 MHz) for 2 hours daily over 3 days to see if it affected amyloid-beta processing, which is linked to Alzheimer's disease. They found no significant changes in the proteins that create these brain plaques. However, the researchers noted that longer-term exposure might produce different results than their short 3-day study.
Study Details
In this study, we examined whether exposure to 1950 MHz RF-EMF affects Aβ processing in neural cells.
We exposed HT22 mouse hippocampal neuronal cells and SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells to RF-EMF (SA...
When exposed to RF-EMF, mRNA levels of APP, BACE1, ADAM10 and PSEN1 were decreased in HT22, but the ...
These observations suggest that RF-EMF exposure may not have a significant physiological effect on Aβ processing of neural cells in the short term. However, considering that we only exposed HT22 and SH-SY5Y cells to RF-EMF for 2 h per day for 3 days, we cannot exclude the possibility that 1950 MHz RF-EMF induces physiological change in Aβ processing with long-term and continuous exposure.
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@article{j_2017_effects_of_1950_mhz_3297,
author = {Park J and Kwon JH and Kim N and Song K},
title = {Effects of 1950 MHz radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on Aβ processing in human neuroblastoma and mouse hippocampal neuronal cells.},
year = {2017},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778507/},
}