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Prenatal exposure to 900 MHz, cell-phone electromagnetic fields had no effect on operant-behavior performances of adult rats.
Bornhausen M, Scheingraber H · 2000
View Original AbstractPrenatal exposure to low-level cell tower radiation showed no learning deficits in rats, though this doesn't address higher phone-level exposures.
Plain English Summary
German researchers exposed pregnant rats to 900 MHz cell phone radiation throughout pregnancy to test whether prenatal EMF exposure affects brain development and learning ability. When the offspring reached adulthood, they showed no cognitive deficits or learning problems compared to unexposed rats. This suggests that low-level cell phone radiation during pregnancy may not impair brain development in rats.
Study Details
To clarify potential health risks of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) used in cellular telephone technology to the developing brain, Wistar rats were continuously exposed during pregnancy to a low-level (0.1 mW/cm2) 900 MHz, 217 Hz pulse modulated EMF that approximated the highest legal exposure of normal populations to the radiation of base antennas of the GSM digital cell-phone technology.
Whole body average specific absorption rate (SAR) values for the freely roaming, pregnant animals we...
Analyses of performance scores and of IRI-patterns both showed that exposure in-utero to the GSM fie...
Show BibTeX
@article{m_2000_prenatal_exposure_to_900_2957,
author = {Bornhausen M and Scheingraber H},
title = {Prenatal exposure to 900 MHz, cell-phone electromagnetic fields had no effect on operant-behavior performances of adult rats.},
year = {2000},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/1521-186X(200012)21:8%3C566::AID-BEM2%3E3.0.CO;2-G},
}