Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Evaluating the biological effects of intermittent 1.9 GHz pulse-modulated radiofrequency fields in a series of human-derived cell lines.
Chauhan V, Mariampillai A, Kutzner BC, Wilkins RC, Ferrarotto C, Bellier PV, Marro L, Gajda GB, Lemay E, Thansandote A, McNamee JP. · 2007
View Original AbstractHuman cells showed no stress responses to cell phone-level RF radiation in this 6-hour laboratory study, contradicting other research finding biological effects.
Plain English Summary
Canadian government researchers exposed three types of human cells to 1.9 GHz radiofrequency radiation (similar to cell phone signals) for 6 hours at power levels up to 10 W/kg. They measured multiple indicators of cellular stress including cell death, DNA damage, immune responses, and cell cycle disruption. The study found no detectable biological effects from the RF exposure at any power level tested.
Study Details
In the present study, we have assessed the ability of non-thermal RF-field exposure to affect a variety of biological processes (including apoptosis, cell cycle progression, viability and cytokine production) in a series of human-derived cell lines (TK6, HL60 and Mono-Mac-6).
Exponentially growing cells were exposed to intermittent (5 min on, 10 min off) 1.9 GHz pulse-modula...
No detectable changes in cell viability, cell cycle kinetics, incidence of apoptosis, or cytokine ex...
Overall, we found no evidence that non-thermal RF-field exposure could elicit any detectable biological effect in three human-derived cell lines.
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@article{v_2007_evaluating_the_biological_effects_2972,
author = {Chauhan V and Mariampillai A and Kutzner BC and Wilkins RC and Ferrarotto C and Bellier PV and Marro L and Gajda GB and Lemay E and Thansandote A and McNamee JP.},
title = {Evaluating the biological effects of intermittent 1.9 GHz pulse-modulated radiofrequency fields in a series of human-derived cell lines.},
year = {2007},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17214515/},
}