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Exposure of Cultured Astroglial and Microglial Brain Cells to 900 MHz Microwave Radiation.

No Effects Found

Thorlin, T., Rouquette, J.-M., Hamnerius, Y., Hansson, E., Persson, M., Bjorklund, U., Rosengren, L., Ronnback, L. and Persson, M. · 2006

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Laboratory brain cells showed no damage from 900 MHz radiation up to 24 hours, but isolated cell studies cannot predict long-term real-world effects.

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Swedish researchers exposed brain glial cells (support cells that protect neurons) to 900 MHz radiation at various power levels for up to 24 hours to see if it would trigger inflammatory responses or cellular damage. They found no significant effects on inflammatory markers, cellular proteins, or cell structure at any exposure level tested. The study suggests that short-term exposure to 900 MHz radiation at these levels does not cause detectable damage to these important brain cells in laboratory conditions.

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The aim of the present study was to investigate whether 900 MHz radiation could affect these two different glial cell types in culture by studying markers for damage-related processes in the cells.

Primary cultures enriched in astroglial cells were exposed to 900 MHz microwave radiation in a tempe...

No significant differences could be detected for any of the parameters studied at any time and for a...

Thus this study does not provide evidence for any effect of the microwave radiation used on damage-related factors in glial cells in culture.

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Thorlin, T., Rouquette, J.-M., Hamnerius, Y., Hansson, E., Persson, M., Bjorklund, U., Rosengren, L., Ronnback, L. and Persson, M. (2006). Exposure of Cultured Astroglial and Microglial Brain Cells to 900 MHz Microwave Radiation. Radiat. Res. 166, 409-421, 2006.
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@article{thorlin_2006_exposure_of_cultured_astroglial_3442,
  author = {Thorlin and T. and Rouquette and J.-M. and Hamnerius and Y. and Hansson and E. and Persson and M. and Bjorklund and U. and Rosengren and L. and Ronnback and L. and Persson and M.},
  title = {Exposure of Cultured Astroglial and Microglial Brain Cells to 900 MHz Microwave Radiation.},
  year = {2006},
  
  url = {https://meridian.allenpress.com/radiation-research/article-abstract/166/2/409/42388/Exposure-of-Cultured-Astroglial-and-Microglial},
}

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Swedish researchers exposed brain glial cells (support cells that protect neurons) to 900 MHz radiation at various power levels for up to 24 hours to see if it would trigger inflammatory responses or cellular damage. They found no significant effects on inflammatory markers, cellular proteins, or cell structure at any exposure level tested. The study suggests that short-term exposure to 900 MHz radiation at these levels does not cause detectable damage to these important brain cells in laboratory conditions.