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Online Journal of Veterinary Research©

Volume 20(9):617-624, 2016.


 

Effect of 900 MHz radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on

serum and testicular tissue antioxidant enzymes of rat

 

Masood Sepehrimanesh1,2, Saeed Nazifi3,*, Mahdi Saeb2, Nasrin Kazemipour2

 

1Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, 2Department of Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, 3Department of Clinical Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

 

ABSTRACT

 

Sepehrimanesh M, Nazifi S, Saeb M, Kazemipour N., Effect of 900 MHz radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on antioxidant enzymes in serum and testicular tissue of rat, Onl J Vet Res., 20(9):617-624, 2016.   Potential damage due to cell phones are mostly focused on head and reproductive organs. Effects of 900 MHz electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure on rat serum and testes antioxidant enzyme levels are described. Groups of 5 rats each were exposed for 1h(STE), 2h(MTE), and 4h(LTE) for 30 consecutive days to EMF with average power density of 86mW/cm2 for 30 consecutive days. One group were sham controls. Blood sampling was performed at days 0 and 30, but testicular sampling was performed only on day 30. Serum and testicular superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione reductase (GRx) were measured. After 30 days exposure, serum SOD or GPx activity declined (P<0.05) in LTE or MTE rats compared with other or sham groups.  In testicular tissue, GPx decreased in MTE (259.93±61.77 U/mg) and LTE (235.54±56.90 U/mg) groups compared with controls (677.17±194.96 U/mg) (P<0.05). Results should be interpreted with caution due to small (n=5) sampling  values

 

Keywords: Cell phone, electromagnetic field, antioxidant, testes.


 

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