Spanish 
Chinese 
Russian 
German 
French 
Japanese 
Portuguese 
Hindi Research Article
Effect of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (Emfs) on Monoamine Neurotransmitters of Newborn Rats
| SA Ismail, Rehab FM Ali*, Hassan HMM and Abd El-Rahman D | |
| Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt | |
| *Corresponding Author : | Rehab F.M. Ali Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture Cairo University, 12613, Giza, Egypt Tel: +2-02- 37742600 Fax: +2-02- 37742600 E-mail: Malk_anany@yahoo.com |
| Received March 06, 2015; Accepted March 24, 2015; Published March 31, 2015 | |
| Citation: Ismail SA, Ali RFM, Hassan HMM, Abd El-Rahman D (2015) Effect of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (Emfs) on Monoamine Neurotransmitters of Newborn Rats. Biochem Physiol 4:156. doi:10.4172/2168-9652.1000156 | |
| Copyright: © 2015 Ismail SA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
Background: The use of mobile phones is increasing day by day, and spending long time connected has aroused interest of possible interactions reflected on human body by radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation.
Purpose: In the current investigation pregnant female Albino rats were exposed to three mobile phone frequencies (900/1800/2100).
Materials and Methods: After delivery, the newborn rats were also subjected to the same condition of exposition to EMF. Histamine, dopamine, serotonin, melatonin, adrenaline, and noradrenaline in the brain wereassayed by highperformance liquid chromatography.
Results and Conclusions: No significant (p ≥ 0.05) changes in the level of monoamine neurotransmitters were shown for the control rats at different ages. Histamine, dopamine, adrenaline, and noradrenaline contents for the exposed animals were significantly (P ≤ 0.05) increased with increasing exposure time. However, exposure to electromagnetic field EMF caused significant decreases in the serotonin and melatonin content of rat brains.The results concluded that the exposure of new born rats to EMF may be sufficient to induce significant changes in the content of monoamine neurotransmitters of the exposed rats.
