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Effect of acute exposure to microwave from mobile phone on DNA damage and repair of cultured human lens epithelial cells in vitro.
Sun LX, Yao K, He JL, Lu DQ, Wang KJ, Li HW · 2006
View Original AbstractMobile phone radiation caused permanent DNA damage in human eye cells at 4 W/kg SAR, while lower levels were repairable.
Plain English Summary
Chinese researchers exposed human eye lens cells to mobile phone radiation (1.8 GHz) at different power levels for 2 hours to see if it damaged DNA. They found that lower exposure levels (1-3 W/kg SAR) caused either no DNA damage or damage that the cells could repair within an hour, but the highest level (4 W/kg SAR) caused permanent DNA damage that cells couldn't fix.
Study Details
To investigate the DNA damage of human lens epithelial cells (LECs) caused by acute exposure to low-power 217 Hz modulated 1.8 GHz microwave radiation and DNA repair.
Cultured LECs were exposed to 217 Hz modulated 1.8 GHz microwave radiation at SAR (specific absorpti...
The difference in DNA-breaks between the exposure and sham exposure groups induced by 1 and 2 W/kg i...
No or repairable DNA damage was observed after 2 hour irradiation of 1.8 GHz microwave on LECs when SAR < or = 3 W/kg. The DNA damages caused by 4 W/kg irradiation were irreversible.
Show BibTeX
@article{lx_2006_effect_of_acute_exposure_3430,
author = {Sun LX and Yao K and He JL and Lu DQ and Wang KJ and Li HW},
title = {Effect of acute exposure to microwave from mobile phone on DNA damage and repair of cultured human lens epithelial cells in vitro.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16978512/},
}