Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
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 tests, but this doesn't rule out other biological 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 (0.25 W/kg SAR) to see if it would cause cell death (apoptosis). Using three different testing methods, they found no increase in neuron death compared to unexposed control cells. This suggests that short-term cell phone radiation exposure may not directly kill brain cells under these laboratory conditions.
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...
These results showed that, under the conditions of experiment used, GSM-exposure does not significantly increase the apoptosis rate in rat primary neuronal cultures. This work is in accordance with other studies performed on cell lines and, to our knowledge, is the first one performed on cultured cortical neurons.
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@article{v_2007_no_apoptosis_is_induced_3122,
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},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17004238/},
}