Ultra high frequency electromagnetic field effects in erythrocytes micronuclei frequency and birth rate of rats prenatally irradiated

An in vivo mammalian cytogenetic test, the micronuclei (MN) assay, was used to investigate the occurrence of genetic damage in rat offspring erythrocytes exposed to a non-thermal electromagnetic field (834 MHz, 0.6 - 1.4 W/kg) from a cellular phone during their embryogenesis. The irradiated group showed a significant increase of MN frequency. The offspring number has not been significantly different between the irradiated and sham groups. It could be concluded that selected UHF-EMF under the applied conditions direct or indirectly induced genotoxic response in hematopoiesis during the embryogenesis after whole-body exposure