Exposure of Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes to Electromagnetic Fields Associated with Cellular Phones Leads to Chromosomal Instability

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 82-90

  Mashevich, Maya ^a   Folkman, Dan ^a   Kesar, Amit ^a   Barbul, Alexander ^a   Korenstein, Rafi ^a   Jerby, Eli ^a   Avivi, Lydia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Carcinogenesis; Centromeric DNA replication; Continuous RF fields; Nonthermal effects

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; CHROMOSOMES; DISEASES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEALTH HAZARDS; LYMPHOCYTES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION PROTECTION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANEUPLOIDY; CARCINOGENESES; CELLULAR PHONE; CENTROMERIC DNA REPLICATION; CONTINUOUS RF FIELD; DNA REPLICATIONS; HUMAN PERIPHERAL BLOOD; NON THERMAL EFFECT; PERIPHERAL BLOOD LYMPHOCYTES; RF FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EPIGENETICS; EXPOSURE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TEMPERATURE; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; LYMPHOCYTE; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR PHONE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0038160038     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10086     Document Type: Article

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