Non-thermal DNA breakage by mobile-phone radiation (1800 MHz) in human fibroblasts and in transformed GFSH-R17 rat granulosa cells in vitro

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 583, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 178-183

  Diem, Elisabeth ^a   Schwarz, Claudia ^a   Adlkofer, Franz ^b   Jahn, Oswald ^a   Rüdiger, Hugo ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Verum Foundation   (Germany)

Author keywords

1800 MHz; Comet assay; Mobile phone modulations; RF EMF

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRRADIATION; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLULAR PHONE; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 20144375601     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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