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Ultra-wide band electromagnetic radiation does not affect UV-induced recombination and mutagenesis in yeast.
Pakhomova ON, Belt ML, Mathur SP, Lee JC, Akyel Y · 1998
View Original AbstractEven extremely high-intensity electromagnetic pulses showed no interference with DNA repair in yeast cells, suggesting minimal genetic risk from typical EMF exposures.
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Researchers exposed yeast cells to extremely high-intensity electromagnetic pulses (up to 104,000 volts per meter) after damaging them with UV radiation to see if the EMF exposure would worsen genetic damage. The ultra-wide band pulses, delivered at repetition rates of 16 Hz or 600 Hz for 30 minutes, showed no effect on DNA repair, mutation rates, or cell survival. This suggests that even very intense pulsed electromagnetic fields may not interfere with cellular DNA repair mechanisms.
Study Details
To investigate Ultra-wide band electromagnetic radiation does not affect UV-induced recombination and mutagenesis in yeast
Cell samples of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were exposed to 100 J/m2 of 254 nm ultraviolet (U...
The effect of exposures was evaluated from the colony-forming ability of the cells on complete and s...
The experiments established no effect of UWB exposure on the UV-induced reciprocal and non-reciprocal recombination, mutagenesis, or cell survival.
Show BibTeX
@article{on_1998_ultrawide_band_electromagnetic_radiation_3288,
author = {Pakhomova ON and Belt ML and Mathur SP and Lee JC and Akyel Y},
title = {Ultra-wide band electromagnetic radiation does not affect UV-induced recombination and mutagenesis in yeast.},
year = {1998},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9492171/},
}