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Exposure to 3G mobile phone signals does not affect the biological features of brain tumor cells.
Liu YX, Li GQ, Fu XP, Xue JH, Ji SP, Zhang ZW, Zhang Y, Li AM. · 2015
View Original Abstract3G radiation at 2.5 times current phone limits didn't promote brain tumor growth over 48 hours in lab studies.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed human brain tumor cells to 3G mobile phone radiation (1950-MHz) for up to 48 hours at high power levels (SAR of 5 W/kg) to see if the radiation would promote tumor growth or change cell behavior. They found no significant effects on cell growth, gene expression, or tumor formation ability. This suggests that 3G signals at these exposure levels don't act as tumor-promoting agents in already-existing brain cancer cells.
Study Details
we investigated whether electromagnetic fields from mobile phones could alter the biological features of human tumor cells and act as a tumor-promoting agent.
Human glioblastoma cell lines, U251-MG and U87-MG, were exposed to 1950-MHz time division-synchronou...
No significant differences in either biological features or tumor formation ability were observed be...
Our findings implied that exposing brain tumor cells in vitro for up to 48 h to 1950-MHz continuous TD-SCDMA electromagnetic fields did not elicit a general cell stress response.
Show BibTeX
@article{yx_2015_exposure_to_3g_mobile_3205,
author = {Liu YX and Li GQ and Fu XP and Xue JH and Ji SP and Zhang ZW and Zhang Y and Li AM.},
title = {Exposure to 3G mobile phone signals does not affect the biological features of brain tumor cells.},
year = {2015},
doi = {10.1186/s12889-015-1996-7},
url = {https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-015-1996-7},
}