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Characterization of biological effect of 1763 MHz radiofrequency exposure on auditory hair cells.
Huang TQ, Lee MS, Oh EH, Kalinec F, Zhang BT, Seo JS, Park WY. · 2008
View Original AbstractAuditory hair cells showed no damage from cell phone radiation at 10 times normal phone exposure levels over 48 hours.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed mouse auditory hair cells (the cells responsible for hearing) to cell phone radiation at 1763 MHz for up to 48 hours at extremely high power levels - 10 times stronger than typical phone use. They found no DNA damage, no changes in cell cycles, no stress responses, and only 29 out of 32,000 genes showed any change. The study suggests that even at these high exposure levels, cell phone radiation doesn't cause measurable biological damage to the specialized cells in our ears.
Study Details
We chose HEI-OC1 immortalized mouse auditory hair cells to characterize the cellular response to 1763 MHz RF exposure, because auditory cells could be exposed to mobile phone frequencies.
Cells were exposed to 1763 MHz RF at a 20 W/kg specific absorption rate (SAR) in a code division mul...
Neither of cell cycle changes nor DNA damage was detected in RF-exposed cells. The expression of hea...
From these results, we could not find any evidence of the induction of cellular responses, including cell cycle distribution, DNA damage, stress response and gene expression, after 1763 MHz RF exposure at an SAR of 20 W/kg in HEI-OC1 auditory hair cells.
Show BibTeX
@article{tq_2008_characterization_of_biological_effect_3095,
author = {Huang TQ and Lee MS and Oh EH and Kalinec F and Zhang BT and Seo JS and Park WY.},
title = {Characterization of biological effect of 1763 MHz radiofrequency exposure on auditory hair cells.},
year = {2008},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19016139/},
}