| Literature DB >> 23345833 |
M R Scarfì1, M Romanò, R Di Pietro, O Zeni, A Doria, G P Gallerano, E Giovenale, G Messina, A Lai, G Campurra, D Coniglio, M D'Arienzo.
Abstract
The aim of the present study is toinvestigate the genotoxic effect of THzradiation in human peripheral bloodlymphocytes following 20 minutes exposureto 1 mW average power Free Electron Laserradiation in the frequency range 120-140GHz. For this purpose 9 healthy donors wereemployed and cytokinesis block techniquewas applied to study micronucleusfrequency and cell proliferation. Theresults obtained indicate that all theelectromagnetic conditions adopted so far do not alter the investigated parameters,suggesting absence of direct chromosomaldamage and alteration of cell cyclekinetics (two tailed paired Student's test:p> 0.05 in all cases).Entities:
Keywords: Cell proliferation; THz radiation; genotoxic effects; human lymphocytes; micronuclei
Year: 2003 PMID: 23345833 PMCID: PMC3456423 DOI: 10.1023/A:1024440708943
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biol Phys ISSN: 0092-0606 Impact factor: 1.365