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Effect of mobile telephony on blood-brain barrier permeability in the fetal mouse brain.
Finnie JW, Blumbergs PC, Cai Z, Manavis J, Kuchel TR. · 2006
View Original AbstractCell phone-level radiation didn't damage the blood-brain barrier in developing mouse brains, but this single protective mechanism doesn't rule out other developmental risks.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed pregnant mice to cell phone-like radiation (900 MHz) for one hour daily throughout pregnancy to see if it would damage the blood-brain barrier in developing fetal brains. The blood-brain barrier is a protective filter that prevents harmful substances from entering brain tissue. They found no damage to this protective barrier in any brain region examined, suggesting the radiation exposure did not compromise brain protection during development.
Study Details
To study the effect of mobile telephone exposure on blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability in the immature brain.
Using a purpose-designed exposure system at 900 MHz, pregnant mice were given a single, far-field, w...
No albumin extravasation was found in exposed or control brains.
In this animal model, whole of gestation exposure to global system for mobile communication-like radiofrequency fields did not produce any increase in vascular permeability in the fetal brain regions studied using endogenous albumin as a light microscopic immunohistochemical marker.
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@article{jw_2006_effect_of_mobile_telephony_3019,
author = {Finnie JW and Blumbergs PC and Cai Z and Manavis J and Kuchel TR.},
title = {Effect of mobile telephony on blood-brain barrier permeability in the fetal mouse brain.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16484011/},
}