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Radiofrequency radiation does not induce stress response in human T-lymphocytes and rat primary astrocytes.
Lee JS, Huang TQ, Kim TH, Kim JY, Kim HJ, Pack JK, Seo JS. · 2006
View Original AbstractRF radiation at cell phone safety limits did not trigger cellular stress responses in immune and brain cells during short-term exposure.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed human immune cells and rat brain cells to cell phone-level radiofrequency radiation (1763 MHz) at power levels of 2 and 20 W/kg for up to one hour while carefully controlling temperature. They found no activation of cellular stress responses, including heat shock proteins and stress-signaling pathways that typically activate when cells are damaged. This suggests that RF radiation at these levels does not trigger the cellular alarm systems that respond to harmful stressors.
Study Details
In this study, we attempted to determine whether radiofrequency (RF) radiation is able to induce a non-thermal stress response.
Human T-lymphocyte Jurkat cells and rat primary astrocytes were exposed to 1763 MHz of RF radiation ...
No detectable difference was observed in the expression levels of HSP90, HSP70, and HSP27. The phosp...
These results indicate that 1763 MHz RF radiation alone did not elicit any stress response, nor did it have any effect on TPA-induced MAPK phosphorylation, under our experimental conditions.
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@article{js_2006_radiofrequency_radiation_does_not_3189,
author = {Lee JS and Huang TQ and Kim TH and Kim JY and Kim HJ and Pack JK and Seo JS.},
title = {Radiofrequency radiation does not induce stress response in human T-lymphocytes and rat primary astrocytes.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16838270/},
}