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Mobile phone radiation does not induce pro-apoptosis effects in human spermatozoa.
Falzone N, Huyser C, Franken DR, Leszczynski D. · 2010
View Original AbstractMobile phone radiation doesn't directly kill sperm cells, but fertility impacts likely occur through other biological mechanisms.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed human sperm samples to mobile phone radiation at levels of 2.0 and 5.7 W/kg to see if the radiation would trigger cell death (apoptosis) through several biological pathways. They found no statistically significant effects on any of the markers they tested, including DNA damage, oxidative stress, or cellular death signals. This suggests that if mobile phone radiation does harm male fertility as some studies indicate, it's likely through mechanisms other than directly killing sperm cells.
Study Details
The present study examined effects of the radiation on induction of apoptosis-related properties in human spermatozoa.
Ejaculated, density-purified, highly motile human spermatozoa were exposed to mobile phone radiation...
Mobile phone radiation had no statistically significant effect on any of the parameters studied.
This suggests that the impairment of fertility reported in some studies was not caused by the induction of apoptosis in spermatozoa.
Show BibTeX
@article{n_2010_mobile_phone_radiation_does_3015,
author = {Falzone N and Huyser C and Franken DR and Leszczynski D.},
title = {Mobile phone radiation does not induce pro-apoptosis effects in human spermatozoa.},
year = {2010},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20681783/},
}