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Cerebral radiofrequency exposures during adolescence: Impact on astrocytes and brain functions in healthy and pathologic rat models.
Petitdant N, Lecomte A, Robidel F, Gamez C, Blazy K, Villégier AS · 2016
View Original AbstractAdolescent rats showed no brain or behavioral changes from month-long RF exposure at cell phone levels, even when made vulnerable through inflammation.
Plain English Summary
French researchers exposed adolescent rats to radiofrequency radiation at levels similar to cell phone use (1.5 and 6 W/kg SAR) for 45 minutes daily over a month to see if it affected brain development, anxiety, or memory. They found no differences between exposed and unexposed rats, even in animals made more vulnerable through induced brain inflammation. The study suggests adolescent brains may not be as sensitive to RF radiation as some have theorized.
Study Details
Here, we used rats to assess whether astrocyte reactivity, perception, and emotionality were affected by RF EMF exposures during adolescence. We also investigated if adolescent brains were more sensitive to RF EMF exposures after neurodevelopmental inflammation.
To do so, we either performed 80 μg/kg intra-peritoneal injections of lipopolysaccharides during ges...
Our results did not show any neurobiological impairment in healthy and vulnerable RF EMF-exposed rat...
These data did not support the hypothesis of a specific cerebral sensitivity to RF EMF of adolescents, even after a neurodevelopmental inflammation.
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@article{n_2016_cerebral_radiofrequency_exposures_during_3302,
author = {Petitdant N and Lecomte A and Robidel F and Gamez C and Blazy K and Villégier AS},
title = {Cerebral radiofrequency exposures during adolescence: Impact on astrocytes and brain functions in healthy and pathologic rat models.},
year = {2016},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27272062/},
}