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Membrane potential and currents of isolated heart muscle cells exposed to pulsed radio frequency fields.
Linz, KW, von Westphalen, C, Streckert, J, Hansen, V, Meyer, R, · 1999
View Original AbstractHeart muscle cells showed no electrical changes when exposed to cell phone radiation up to 880 mW/kg in laboratory conditions.
Plain English Summary
German researchers exposed isolated heart muscle cells from guinea pigs and rats to cell phone frequencies (900 MHz and 1800 MHz) to see if radio waves affected the cells' electrical activity. They found no significant changes to the heart cells' membrane potential, action potentials, or calcium and potassium currents even at exposure levels up to 880 mW/kg. The study suggests that cell phone radiation at these levels does not directly disrupt the basic electrical functions of heart muscle cells.
Study Details
The influence of radio frequency (RF) fields of 180, 900, and 1800 MHz on the membrane potential, action potential, L-type Ca(2+) current and potassium currents of isolated ventricular myocytes was tested.
The study is based on 90 guinea-pig myocytes and 20 rat myocytes. The fields were applied in rectang...
None of the tested electrophysiological parameters was changed significantly by exposure to RF field...
Show BibTeX
@article{linz_1999_membrane_potential_and_currents_3200,
author = {Linz and KW and von Westphalen and C and Streckert and J and Hansen and V and Meyer and R and},
title = {Membrane potential and currents of isolated heart muscle cells exposed to pulsed radio frequency fields.},
year = {1999},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10559771/},
}