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

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Summary, in English

The data on biologic effects of nonthermal microwaves (MWs) from mobile telephones are diverse, and these effects are presently ignored by safety standards of the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). In the present study, we investigated effects of MWs of Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) at different carrier frequencies on human lymphocytes from healthy persons and from persons reporting hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). We measured the changes in chromatin conformation, which are indicative of stress response and genotoxic effects, by the method of anomalous viscosity time dependence, and we analyzed tumor suppressor p53-binding protein 1 (53BP1) and phosphorylated histone H2AX (gamma-H2AX), which have been shown to colocalize in distinct foci with DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), using immunofluorescence confocal laser microscopy. We found that MWs from GSM mobile telephones affect chromatin conformation and 53BP1/gamma-H2AX foci similar to heat shock. For the first time, we report here that effects of MWs from mobile telephones on human lymphocytes are dependent on carrier frequency. On average, the same response was observed in lymphocytes from hypersensitive and healthy subjects.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

1172-1177

Publication/Series

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volume

113

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Topic

  • Environmental Health and Occupational Health

Keywords

  • stress response
  • hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields
  • DNA double-strand breaks
  • 53BP1 and gamma-H2AX foci
  • chromatin

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1552-9924