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Frequency of micronuclei in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of cancer-prone mice chronically exposed to 2450 MHz radiofrequency radiation.
Vijayalaxmi, Frei, MR, Dusch, SJ, Guel, V, Meltz, ML, Jauchem, JR · 1997
View Original AbstractEighteen months of microwave radiation exposure at cell phone-level intensities caused no detectable DNA damage in cancer-prone mice.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed cancer-prone mice to 2450 MHz radiofrequency radiation (the same frequency used in microwave ovens and some WiFi) for 20 hours daily over 18 months to test whether it causes DNA damage. They measured micronuclei - tiny fragments that indicate genetic damage - in blood and bone marrow cells. The study found no significant difference in DNA damage between exposed and unexposed mice, suggesting this level of RF exposure did not cause detectable genetic harm.
Study Details
The aim of this study is to investigate Frequency of micronuclei in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of cancer-prone mice chronically exposed to 2450 MHz radiofrequency radiation.
C3H/HeJ mice, which are prone to mammary tumors, were exposed for 20 h/day, 7 days/week, over 18 mon...
The results indicate that the incidence of micronuclei/1,000 PCEs was not significantly different be...
Thus there was no evidence for genotoxicity in mice prone to mammary tumors that were exposed chronically to 2450 MHz RF radiation compared with sham-exposed controls.
Show BibTeX
@article{vijayalaxmi_1997_frequency_of_micronuclei_in_3467,
author = {Vijayalaxmi and Frei and MR and Dusch and SJ and Guel and V and Meltz and ML and Jauchem and JR},
title = {Frequency of micronuclei in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of cancer-prone mice chronically exposed to 2450 MHz radiofrequency radiation.},
year = {1997},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9092931/},
}