Effects of mobile phone use on brain tissue from the rat and a possible protective role of vitamin C - a preliminary study med./bio.

Aim of study (acc. to author)

Background/further details

Endpoint

• effects on the neurological system: oxidative stress and purine metabolism in the brain

Exposure

• • mobile communications
  • digital mobile phone

Extended view Compact view

Methods Endpoint/measurement parameters/methodology

• effects on the neurological system: oxidative stress and purine metabolism in the brain (malondialdehyde level (via thiobarbituric acid reactive substances), antioxidant potential, enzyme activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, xanthine oxidase, adenosine deaminase and 5'-nucleotidase; spectrophotometry)

Main outcome of study (acc. to author)

Study funded by

• not stated/no funding

Comments on this article

• Greenebaum B (2011): Comment on I. B. Erguder et al., "Effects of mobile phone use on brain tissue from the rat and a possible protective role of vitamin C - a preliminary study" [Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 86 (2010) 1044-1049]

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