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Effects of mobile phone radiation on UV-induced skin tumourigenesis in ornithine decarboxylase transgenic and non-transgenic mice.
Heikkinen P, Kosma VM, Alhonen L, Huuskonen H, Komulainen H, Kumlin T, Laitinen JT, Lang S, Puranen L, Juutilainen J. · 2003
View Original AbstractMobile phone radiation at legal limits didn't significantly increase skin cancer in mice, but slightly accelerated tumor development warrants further investigation.
Plain English Summary
Finnish researchers exposed mice to mobile phone radiation for one year while also exposing them to UV light to see if the combination would increase skin cancer rates. The mobile phone radiation alone did not significantly increase tumor development, though there was a slight acceleration in tumor growth timing that the researchers noted deserves further investigation.
Study Details
The effects of low-level radiofrequency radiation (RFR) on ultraviolet (UV)-induced skin tumorigenesis were evaluated in ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and non-transgenic mice.
Transgenic female mice over-expressing the human ODC gene and their non-transgenic littermates (20 a...
UV exposure resulted in development of macroscopic skin tumours in 11.5 and 36.8% of non-transgenic ...
RFR exposures did not significantly enhance skin tumourigenesis. However, the slightly accelerated tumour development may warrant further evaluation.
Show BibTeX
@article{p_2003_effects_of_mobile_phone_3073,
author = {Heikkinen P and Kosma VM and Alhonen L and Huuskonen H and Komulainen H and Kumlin T and Laitinen JT and Lang S and Puranen L and Juutilainen J.},
title = {Effects of mobile phone radiation on UV-induced skin tumourigenesis in ornithine decarboxylase transgenic and non-transgenic mice.},
year = {2003},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12775446/},
}