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DNA damage in frog erythrocytes after in vitro exposure to a high peak-power pulsed electromagnetic field.
Chemeris NK, Gapeyev AB, Sirota NP, Gudkova OY, Kornienko NV, Tankanag AV, Konovalov IV, Buzoverya ME, Suvorov VG, Logunov VA. · 2004
View Original AbstractEven at extreme EMF exposure levels 1000x higher than cell phones, DNA damage was caused by heating, not radiation itself.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed frog blood cells to extremely high-power pulsed electromagnetic fields (8.8 GHz) to test whether the radiation could damage DNA. While they did observe DNA damage, they found it was caused entirely by the 3.5°C temperature increase from the intense exposure, not by any non-thermal effects of the radiation itself. When they heated cells to the same temperature without radiation, the DNA damage was identical.
Study Details
We investigated possible genotoxic effects of HPPP EMF (8.8 GHz, 180 ns pulse width, peak power 65 kW, repetition rate 50 Hz) on erythrocytes of the frog Xenopus laevis.
We used the alkaline comet assay, which is a highly sensitive method to assess DNA single-strand bre...
The temperature rise in the blood samples at steady state was 3.5 +/- 0.1 degrees C. The data show t...
The results allow us to conclude that HPPP EMF-exposure at the given modality did not cause any a-thermal genotoxic effect on frog erythrocytes in vitro.
Show BibTeX
@article{nk_2004_dna_damage_in_frog_2973,
author = {Chemeris NK and Gapeyev AB and Sirota NP and Gudkova OY and Kornienko NV and Tankanag AV and Konovalov IV and Buzoverya ME and Suvorov VG and Logunov VA.},
title = {DNA damage in frog erythrocytes after in vitro exposure to a high peak-power pulsed electromagnetic field.},
year = {2004},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15036116/},
}