Microwaves from GSM mobile telephones affect 53BP1 and γ-H2AX foci in human lymphocytes from hypersensitive and healthy persons

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1172-1177

  Markovà, Eva ^a,b   Hillert, Lena ^c,d   Malmgren, Lars ^e   Persson, Bertil R R ^f   Belyaev, Igor Y ^a,g  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c Dept of Occupational and Environmental Health   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

53BP1 and H2AX foci; Chromatin; DNA double strand breaks; Hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields; Stress response

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2AX; P53 BINDING PROTEIN 1; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR PHONE; CHROMATIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HISTONES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPROTEINS;

EID: 25844432196     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7561     Document Type: Article

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