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Florence Poulletier de Gannes1, Bernard Billaudel, Emmanuelle Haro, Murielle Taxile, Laureline Le Montagner, Annabelle Hurtier, Saliha Ait Aissa, Hiroshi Masuda, Yann Percherancier, Gilles Ruffié, Philippe Dufour, Bernard Veyret, Isabelle Lagroye.
Abstract
In recent decades, concern has been growing about decreasing fecundity and fertility in the human population. Exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF), especially radiofrequency (RF) fields used in wireless communications has been suggested as a potential risk factor. For the first time, we evaluated the effects of exposure to the 2450MHz Wi-Fi signal (1h/day, 6days/week) on the reproductive system of male and female Wistar rats, pre-exposed to Wi-Fi during sexual maturation. Exposure lasted 3 weeks (males) or 2 weeks (females), then animals were mated and couples exposed for 3 more weeks. On the day before delivery, the fetuses were observed for lethality, abnormalities, and clinical signs. In our experiment, no deleterious effects of Wi-Fi exposure on rat male and female reproductive organs and fertility were observed for 1h per days. No macroscopic abnormalities in fetuses were noted, even at the critical level of 4W/kg.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 23178895 DOI： 10.1016/j.reprotox.2012.11.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Reprod Toxicol ISSN： 0890-6238 Impact factor: 3.143