Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Gene expression analysis of a human lymphoblastoma cell line exposed in vitro to an intermittent 1.9 GHz pulse-modulated radiofrequency field.
Chauhan V, Mariampillai A, Bellier PV, Qutob SS, Gajda GB, Lemay E, Thansandote A, McNamee JP. · 2006
View Original AbstractThis study found no cellular stress response from 1.9 GHz RF at cell phone-level exposures, but examined only limited stress markers.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed human immune cells to 1.9 GHz radiofrequency radiation at levels similar to cell phone use (1-10 W/kg SAR) to see if it triggered cellular stress responses. They measured key stress markers including heat shock proteins and proto-oncogenes that typically activate when cells are damaged. The study found no significant changes in these stress indicators, suggesting the RF exposure did not cause detectable cellular stress under these laboratory conditions.
Study Details
This study was designed to determine whether radiofrequency (RF) fields of the type used for wireless communications could elicit a cellular stress response.
As general indicators of a cellular stress response, we monitored changes in proto-oncogene and heat...
We demonstrated that transcript levels of these genes in RF-field-exposed cells showed no significan...
In conclusion, our study found no evidence that the 1.9 GHz RF-field exposure caused a general stress response in TK6 cells under our experimental conditions.
Show BibTeX
@article{v_2006_gene_expression_analysis_of_2969,
author = {Chauhan V and Mariampillai A and Bellier PV and Qutob SS and Gajda GB and Lemay E and Thansandote A and McNamee JP.},
title = {Gene expression analysis of a human lymphoblastoma cell line exposed in vitro to an intermittent 1.9 GHz pulse-modulated radiofrequency field.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16579654/},
}