Effects of acute exposure to the radiofrequency fields of cellular phones on plasma lipid peroxide and antioxidase activities in human erythrocytes

Cell Phone Radiations Affect Early Growth of Vigna radiata (Mung Bean) through Biochemical Alterations

“…It has been documented that EMFs affect the cell protein (Kwee et al, 2001), change the cell membrane characteristics (Goltsov, 1999), and alter the enzyme activity (Paulraj and Behari, 2002;Barteri et al, 2004) and gene expression (Lee et al, 2005) in animals. Additionally, radiofrequency EMFs induce lipid peroxidation and heat shock proteins, and elicit antioxidant response in human cells (Kwee et al, 2001;Moustafa et al, 2001;Leszczynski et al, 2002).…”

Evaluation of Parenteral Antioxidant as a Protective Therapy Against Electromagnetic Radiation Produced by Cell Phones on Hematological and Biochemical Parameters in Rats

“…Radiofrequencies emitted from cellular phones may disturb biological systems by increasing FRs, as being very reactive unstable molecular species they initiate chain reactions to yield new radicals 18 . Glutathione are small peptide molecules, directly act to scavenge the reactive metabolites 4 .…”

Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields Induces Oxidative Stress and Pathophysiological Changes in the Cardiovascular System

“…Hypocalcemia, might be one of the mechanisms by which EMF interacts with biological tissues that RF radiation from cell phone could alter. 60 The observed significant hypocalcaemia associated with exposure to EMF occurred as a result of alteration of intracellular signaling pathways resulted from RF radiation exposure through changes in Ca2+ permeability across cell membranes. 65 It has been reported that calcium positive ions strengthen cell membranes because they bind together the negatively charged phospholipid molecules, and that electromagnetic radiation could lead to the replacement of calcium with monovalent ions that weakens the membrane and makes it more likely to tear and form pores.…”

“…59 enhancing lipid peroxidation and reducing the activation of SOD and GSH-Px, free radical scavengers. 60 Mohamed et al 44 concluded that rats exposed to cell phone EMF for 4 and 8 weeks for either 1h/day, 2hrs/day or 3hrs/day, exposure being carried out six days/ week, at fixed time of the day showed that the plasma total anti-oxidant capacity was significantly decreased in all exposed groups, for either 4 or 8 weeks, while the MDA level in the cardiac tissue was only significantly elevated in the 8 weeks-3hrs/ day exposed group compared to the matched control group. So the decrease in plasma total antioxidant capacity might be the result of its exhaustion in defending the free radical believed to be generated with RF-EMF.…”