The Effects of Magnetic Fields Created by Mobile Phones on In Vitro Embryo Development

Year 2024, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 449 - 455, 24.09.2024

Nihal Gürlek Çelik , Harun Ülger , Mehtap Nisari

https://doi.org/10.37990/medr.1511651

Abstract

Aim: The risks to public health of radiofrequency signals emitted by mobile phones, an indispensable part of our daily lives, have begun to be questioned. For this reason, the magnetic field created by a third-generation mobile phone was applied to the embryos obtained by in vitro embryo culture technique during the organogenesis period of the rat embryo and its effect on development was examined.
Material and Method: In our study, 20 adult female rats weighing between 200-300 g and 30 male Wistar albino rats weighing over 300 g were used. The developmental morphology of embryos from the control and experimental groups exposed to magnetic fields for different periods (24 hours, 48 hours) was evaluated.
Results: When the morphological score, yolk sac diameter, crown-rump length and number of somites of embryos exposed to magnetic fields for different periods were compared, the experimental groups regressed compared to the control group.
Conclusion: As a result, it was shown that developmental delays and deformities may occur in embryos depending on the duration of exposure to the magnetic field.

Keywords

3G mobile phone, embryo development, in vitro, magnetic field, rat

Ethical Statement

The Non-Intervention Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty gave ethical approval (numbered 07/07 and dated 10.10.2007)

Supporting Institution

Erciyes University Scientific Research Projects Unit

Project Number

TSY-08-397

Thanks

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