Cell phones: Modern man's nemesis?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 148-157

  Makker, Kartikeya ^a   Varghese, Alex ^a   Desai, Nisarg R ^a   Mouradi, Rand ^b   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysics; Cell phone; General health; Infertility; Radiofrequency electromagnetic waves; RF EMW

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NEUROHORMONE; PROTEOME;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ASTROCYTOMA; BIOPHYSICS; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL PROTECTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART RATE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY DISORDER; MOBILE PHONE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; ONCOGENE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEOMICS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RECALL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SYMPTOM; TELECOMMUNICATION; TESTIS CANCER; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 58649117781     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60437-3     Document Type: Review

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