Whole-Body Exposure of Radiation Emitted from 900 MHz Mobile Phones Does Not Seem to Affect the Levels of Anti-Apoptotic bcl-2 Protein
| Autor: | Suleyman Dasdag, Fahri Yilmaz, M. Zulkuf Akdag, Nihal Kilinç |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Radio Waves Period (gene) Biophysics Medicine (miscellaneous) Apoptosis Rats Sprague-Dawley Sham group Toxicology Internal medicine Testis medicine Animals business.industry Brain General Medicine Rat brain Rats Endocrinology Gene Expression Regulation Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 Whole body business Cell Phone Whole-Body Irradiation |
| Zdroj: | Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. 27:65-72 |
| ISSN: | 1536-8386 1536-8378 |
| Popis: | The purpose of the present study was to investigate the anti-apoptotic bcl-2 protein in rat brain and testes after whole-body exposure to radiation emitted from 900 MHz cellular phones. Two groups (sham and experimental) of Sprague-Dawley rats of eight rats each were used in the study. Exposure began approximately 10 min after transferring into the exposure cages, a period of time when rats settled down to a prone position and selected a fixed location inside the cage spontaneously. For the experimental group, the phones were in the speech condition for 20 min per day for 1 month. The same procedure was applied to the sham group rats, but the phones were turned off. Immunohistochemical staining of bcl-2 was performed according to the standardized avidin-biotin complex method. The results of this study showed that 20 min of the radiation emitted from 900 MHz cellular phones did not alter anti-apoptotic bcl-2 protein in the brain and testes of rats. We speculate that bcl-2 may not be involved in the effects of radiation on the brain and testes of rats. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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