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<i>In vitro </i>effects of low-level, low-frequency electromagnetic fields on DNA <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">damage in human leucocytes by comet assay</span>

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Title In vitro effects of low-level, low-frequency electromagnetic fields on DNA damage in human leucocytes by comet assay
 
Creator Ahuja, Y R
Vijayashree, B
Saran, R
Jayashri, E L
Manoranjani, J K
Bhargava, S C
 
Description 318-322
The sources for the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have
been traced to time-varying as well as steady electric and magnetic fields,
both at low and high to ultra high frequencies. Of these, the effects of
low-frequency (50/60 HZ) magnetic fields, directly related to time-varying
currents, are of particular interest as exposure to some yields may be commonly
experienced. In the present study, investigations have been carried out at
low-level (mT) and low-frequency (50 Hz) electromagnetic fields in healthy
human volunteers. Their peripheral blood samples were exposed to 5 doses of electromagnetic
fields (2,3,5,7 and 10mT at 50 Hz) and analysed by comet assay. The results
were compared to those obtained from unexposed samples from the same subjects. 50
cells per treatment per individual were scored for comet-tail length which is
all estimate of DNA damage. Data from observations among males were pooled for
each flux density for analysis. At each flux density, with one exception, there
was a significant increase in the DNA damage from the control value. When
compared with a similar study on females carried out by us earlier, the DNA
damage level was significantly higher in the females as compared to the males
for each flux density.
 
Date 2012-12-31T19:53:15Z
2012-12-31T19:53:15Z
1999-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-0959 (Online); 0301-1208 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15459
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJBB Vol.36(5) [October 1999]