Mobile Phone Radiation Changes Protein Expression in Human Skin
A research by Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) suggests that radiation from mobile phones may alter proteins in human beings. However, the health effects of such radiation on the human body are not clear.
Researchers experimented a small area of the forearm’s skin of 10 female volunteers who were exposed to mobile phone radiation, also known as radio frequency modulated electromagnetic fields or RF-EMF, for one hour. Later, the skin biopsies from exposed and non-exposed areas of skin were gathered. All extractable proteins were examined. It was found that mobile phone radiation has some biological effect. Out of the 580 proteins, 8 proteins showed significant effects.
Dariusz Leszczynski, an agency researcher, stated, “Even if the changes are small, they still exist.” It alters protein expression and activity in human endothelial cell line. However, it is too early to comment on the changes that were observed while conducting the research.
Leszczynski added, “The aim of this project was not detecting any possible health effects, but to find out whether living human skin responds to mobile phone radiation and whether proteomics approach is useful in sorting out this issue.”
STUK further plans to conduct more extensive study on the same with 50-100 volunteers, which is slated to start by 2009.
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