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DNA strand breaks are not induced in human cells exposed to 2.1425 GHz band CW and W-CDMA modulated radiofrequency fields allocated to mobile radio base stations.
Sakuma N, Komatsubara Y, Takeda H, Hirose H, Sekijima M, Nojima T, Miyakoshi J. · 2006
View Original AbstractCell tower radiation at 2.1425 GHz caused no DNA damage at levels up to 10 times higher than public exposure limits.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed human brain and lung cells to 2.1425 GHz radiofrequency radiation at levels up to 10 times higher than public safety limits for up to 24 hours. They found no DNA damage in either cell type, even at the highest exposure levels tested. This suggests that cell phone tower radiation at these frequencies doesn't break DNA strands under laboratory conditions.
Study Details
We conducted a large-scale in vitro study focused on the effects of low level radiofrequency (RF) fields from mobile radio base stations employing the International Mobile Telecommunication 2000 (IMT-2000) cellular system in order to test the hypothesis that modulated RF fields may act as a DNA damaging agent
First, we evaluated the responses of human cells to microwave exposure at a specific absorption rate...
Under the same RF field exposure conditions, no significant differences in the DNA strand breaks wer...
Our results confirm that low level exposures do not act as a genotoxicant up to a SAR of 800 mW/kg.
Show BibTeX
@article{n_2006_dna_strand_breaks_are_2927,
author = {Sakuma N and Komatsubara Y and Takeda H and Hirose H and Sekijima M and Nojima T and Miyakoshi J.},
title = {DNA strand breaks are not induced in human cells exposed to 2.1425 GHz band CW and W-CDMA modulated radiofrequency fields allocated to mobile radio base stations.},
year = {2006},
doi = {10.1002/bem.20179},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.20179},
}