BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CHRONIC AND ACUTE MICROWAVE IRRADIATION IN SOME ANIMAL TISSUES
Pages 152-156
E. Foca-Nici, L. Curecheriu, G. Stoian, D. Creanga, Fl. Tufescu, Al. Vlahovici
Abstract
The authors intent to evidence the non-thermal effects of microwaves for either acute or chronic exposures. Low power density microwaves have been used at the frequency of 10.75 GHz (delivered by a suitable generator designed and assembled in our laboratory). Animal tissue samples (muscle, liver, lung and bone) have been irradiated for 1-2-4-8-16 hours (unique exposures) as well as for 1-2-4 hours per irradiation session with 2 hours breaks between sessions (repeated exposures). Comparative graphical representations have been done for each tissue in order to reveal the effects of the electromagnetic exposures on the nucleic acid content. The concurrent phenomena of DNA damage and DNA damage repair under low exposure condition have been considered. Repeated measurements have been carried out in order to ensure the statistical significance of the experimental results (t-test was applied).