- Title
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Impacts of high dose 3.5 GHz cellphone radiofrequency on zebrafish embryonic development
- Authors
- Dasgupta, S., Wang, G., Simonich, M.T., Zhang, T., Truong, L., Liu, H., Tanguay, R.L.
- Source
- Full text @ PLoS One
(A) The transmitter generates RFR signal at 3.5 GHz that is amplified by the PA and broadcast in the Faraday cage via antenna. The Faraday cage contains a 6-well plate on a heating pad that maintains temperature of the plate at ~28°C. Each plate is fitted with a temperature probe to measure temperature of the EM. Arrows represent direction of current. An image of the actual setup is included in |
Embryos were exposed to 3.5 GHz, ~ 30 dBm RFR, at a specific absorption rate (SAR) ≈ 8.27 W/Kg from 6–48 hpf and developmental parameters were measured at 120 hpf. All assays (panels A-C) were sequentially conducted from the same subset of embryos, with a total of 144 embryos from 3 replicate experiments used per treatment condition. (A) Summary of effects observed within our study. Measured parameters include mortality (Mort), 17 morphological parameters and 2 behavioral parameters (larval photomotor (LPR) and startle (LSR) responses). “Any effect” indicates a combination of all 17 morphological parameters. “LSR-All” indicates AUC and Peak measurements combined. (B) RFR exposure does not have any significant effect on photomotor response. (C) RFR exposure results in reduced peak height for startle response. |
S1 Fig. Experimental setup for RFR exposure. |