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Absence of DNA damage after 60-Hz electromagnetic field exposure combined with ionizing radiation, hydrogen peroxide, or c-Myc overexpression.
Jin YB, Choi SH, Lee JS, Kim JK, Lee JW, Hong SC, Myung SH, Lee YS. · 2014
View Original AbstractPower-frequency magnetic fields at 1 mT showed no DNA damage in cell studies, even when combined with radiation.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed four different types of human and mouse cells to 60 Hz magnetic fields (the same frequency as power lines) for 4 to 16 hours, both alone and combined with known DNA-damaging agents like radiation and hydrogen peroxide. They found no DNA damage from the magnetic field exposure alone, and the magnetic fields did not make other DNA-damaging agents more harmful. This suggests that power-frequency magnetic fields at 1 milliTesla may not directly damage cellular DNA.
Study Details
The principal objective of this study was to assess the DNA damage in a normal cell line system after exposure to 60 Hz of extremely low frequency magnetic field (ELF-MF) and particularly in combination with various external factors, via comet assays.
NIH3T3 mouse fibroblast cells, WI-38 human lung fibroblast cells, L132 human lung epithelial cells, ...
The results obtained showed no significant differences between the cells exposed to ELF-MF alone and...
Show BibTeX
@article{yb_2014_absence_of_dna_damage_2851,
author = {Jin YB and Choi SH and Lee JS and Kim JK and Lee JW and Hong SC and Myung SH and Lee YS.},
title = {Absence of DNA damage after 60-Hz electromagnetic field exposure combined with ionizing radiation, hydrogen peroxide, or c-Myc overexpression.},
year = {2014},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00411-013-0506-5},
}