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Expression of the immediate early gene, c-fos, in fetal brain after whole of gestation exposure of pregnant mice to global system for mobile communication microwaves.
Finnie JW, Cai Z, Blumbergs PC, Manavis J, Kuchel TR. · 2006
View Original AbstractPrenatal exposure to high-level cell phone radiation showed no brain stress markers in this mouse study, though broader developmental effects remain unclear.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed pregnant mice to 900 MHz cell phone radiation for one hour daily throughout pregnancy to see if it would stress developing fetal brains. They measured c-fos, a protein that appears when brain cells are under stress. The study found no difference in stress markers between exposed and unexposed fetal brains, suggesting this level of radiation didn't cause detectable neural stress during development.
Study Details
To study immediate early gene, c-fos, expression as a marker of neural stress after whole of gestation exposure of the fetal mouse brain to mobile telephone-type radiofrequency fields.
Using a purpose-designed exposure system at 900 MHz, pregnant mice were given a single, far-field, w...
c-fos expression was of limited, but consistent, neuroanatomical distribution and there was no diffe...
In this animal model, no stress response was detected in the fetal brain using c-fos immunohistochemistry after whole of gestation exposure to mobile telephony.
Show BibTeX
@article{jw_2006_expression_of_the_immediate_3020,
author = {Finnie JW and Cai Z and Blumbergs PC and Manavis J and Kuchel TR.},
title = {Expression of the immediate early gene, c-fos, in fetal brain after whole of gestation exposure of pregnant mice to global system for mobile communication microwaves.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16916723/},
}