Microwaves from mobile phones inhibit 53BP1 focus formation in human stem cells more strongly than in differentiated cells: Possible mechanistic link to cancer risk

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 394-399

  Markovà, Eva ^a,b   Malmgren, Lars O G ^c   Belyaev, Igor Y ^a,b,d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

53BP1 foci; DNA double strand breaks; Microwaves; Mobile phones; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TP53BP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR P53 BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EXPOSURE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CYTOLOGY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RADIATION RESPONSE;

CELL PHONES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROWAVES; STEM CELLS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR P53-BINDING PROTEIN 1;

EID: 77649229330     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900781     Document Type: Article

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