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Human skin cell stress response to GSM-900 mobile phone signals. In vitro study on isolated primary cells and reconstructed epidermis
Sanchez S, Milochau A, Ruffie G, Poulletier de Gannes F, Lagroye I, Haro E, Surleve-Bazeille JE, Billaudel B, Lassegues M, Veyret B. · 2006
View Original AbstractHuman skin cells showed minimal stress responses to cell phone radiation at legal safety limits, suggesting skin can adapt to typical phone exposures.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed human skin cells to cell phone radiation at the legal safety limit (2 W/kg SAR) for 48 hours to see if it triggered cellular stress responses. They found minimal changes - no cell death or tissue damage, with only slight increases in one stress protein in some cell types. The results suggest that skin cells can adapt to this level of radiofrequency exposure without harmful effects.
Study Details
In recent years, possible health hazards due to radiofrequency radiation (RFR) emitted by mobile phones have been investigated. Because several publications have suggested that RFR is stressful, we explored the potential biological effects of Global System for Mobile phone communication at 900 MHz (GSM-900) exposure on cultures of isolated human skin cells and human reconstructed epidermis (hRE) using human keratinocytes.
As cell stress markers, we studied Hsc70, Hsp27 and Hsp70 heat shock protein (HSP) expression and ep...
Apoptosis was not induced in isolated cells and there was no alteration in hRE thickness or prolifer...
These results suggest that adaptive cell behaviour in response to RFR exposure, depending on the cell type and culture conditions, is unlikely to have deleterious effects at the skin level.
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@article{s_2006_human_skin_cell_stress_3354,
author = {Sanchez S and Milochau A and Ruffie G and Poulletier de Gannes F and Lagroye I and Haro E and Surleve-Bazeille JE and Billaudel B and Lassegues M and Veyret B. },
title = {Human skin cell stress response to GSM-900 mobile phone signals. In vitro study on isolated primary cells and reconstructed epidermis},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17094784/},
}