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Amâncio Romanelli Ferreira et al., Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence..., Life Sciences (2006),
Many pregnant women carry the cellular close to the abdomen and they use the cellular during all the gestation. Considering all the results presented in this work, we conclude that UHF-EMF is indeed able to generate cell chromosome damage transplacentally.
Lunes 25 de septiembre de 2006 · 1819 lecturas
Abstract
Mobile telephones and their base stations are an important ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field (UHF-EMF) source and their utilization is increasing all over the world. Epidemiological studies suggested that low energy UHF-EMF emitted from a cellular telephone may cause biological effects, such as DNA damage and changes on oxidative metabolism. An in vivo mammalian cytogenetic test, the micronucleus (MN) assay, was used to investigate the occurrence of chromosomal damage in erythrocytes from rat offspring exposed to a non-thermal UHF-EMF from a cellular phone during their embryogenesis; the irradiated group showed a significant increase in MN occurrence. In order to investigate if UHF-EMF could also alter oxidative parameters in the peripheral blood and in the liver - an important hematopoietic tissue in rat embryos and newborns - we also measured the activity of antioxidant enzymes, quantified total sulfhydryl content, protein carbonyl groups, thiobarbituric acidreactive species and total non-enzymatic antioxidant defense. No significant differences were found in any oxidative parameter of offspring blood and liver. The average number of pups in each litter has also not been significantly altered. Our results suggest that, under our experimental conditions, UHF-EMF is able to induce a genotoxic response in hematopoietic tissue during the embryogenesis through an unknown mechanism.
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Keywords: Chromosomal damage; Cellular phone; Embryogenesis; Micronucleus; Rat offspring; Oxidative stress; Erythrocytes; Liver
Amâncio Romanelli Ferreira et al., Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence..., Life Sciences (2006),
Many pregnant women carry the cellular close to the abdomen and they use the cellular during all the gestation. Considering all the results presented in this work, we conclude that UHF-EMF is indeed able to generate cell chromosome damage transplacentally.
