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Expression of the water channel protein, aquaporin-4, in mouse brains exposed to mobile telephone radiofrequency fields
Finnie JW, Blumbergs PC, Cai Z, Manavis J · 2009
View Original AbstractCell phone radiation at 4 W/kg SAR showed no blood-brain barrier disruption in mice after exposures up to two years.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed mice to cell phone radiation at 900 MHz for either one hour or two years to see if it would increase a brain protein called aquaporin-4, which rises when the blood-brain barrier becomes leaky. They found no increase in this protein after either short or long-term exposure, suggesting that cell phone radiation at this level doesn't make the blood-brain barrier more permeable.
Study Details
To determine whether exposure to mobile telephone radiofrequency (RF) fields, either acutely or long-term, produces up-regulation of the water channel protein, aquaporin-4 (AQP-4).
Using a purpose-designed exposure system at 900 MHz, mice were given a single, far-field whole body ...
There was no increase in AQP-4 expression in brains exposed to mobile phone microwaves compared to c...
Brains exposed to mobile telephone RF fields for a short (60 minutes) or long (2 years) duration did not show any immunohistochemically detectable up-regulation of the water channel protein, AQP-4, suggesting that there was no significant increase in blood-brain barrier permeability.
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@article{jw_2009_expression_of_the_water_2752,
author = {Finnie JW and Blumbergs PC and Cai Z and Manavis J},
title = {Expression of the water channel protein, aquaporin-4, in mouse brains exposed to mobile telephone radiofrequency fields},
year = {2009},
doi = {10.1080/00313020902885045},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00313020902885045},
}