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No apoptosis is induced in rat cortical neurons exposed to GSM phone fields.
Joubert V, Leveque P, Cueille M, Bourthoumieu S, Yardin C. · 2007
View Original AbstractCell phone radiation at typical use levels didn't kill rat brain neurons in lab conditions, but this doesn't rule out other potential effects.
Plain English Summary
French researchers exposed rat brain neurons to cell phone radiation (900 MHz GSM) for 24 hours at levels similar to phone use, then tested whether the radiation caused brain cells to die through a process called apoptosis. Using three different measurement methods, they found no increase in cell death compared to unexposed neurons. This suggests that brief cell phone radiation exposure may not directly damage brain cells in the way some scientists have theorized.
Study Details
The aim of this study was to investigate the radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) effects on neuronal apoptosis in vitro.
Primary cultured neurons from cortices of embryonic Wistar rats were exposed to a 900‐MHz global sys...
No statistically significant difference in the apoptosis rate was observed between controls and 24 h...
Show BibTeX
@article{v_2007_no_apoptosis_is_induced_2766,
author = {Joubert V and Leveque P and Cueille M and Bourthoumieu S and Yardin C. },
title = {No apoptosis is induced in rat cortical neurons exposed to GSM phone fields.},
year = {2007},
doi = {10.1002/bem.20274},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.20274},
}