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Authors:
Wiam Ramadan
Hassan Khachfe
Eric Esteve
Mohammed Moustafa ElSayed
Lina Ismail
Lina Sabra
Khalil Abou Saleh
Mehnieh Baccouri
Wissam H. Joumaa
Keywords: GSM electromagnetic waves; skeletal muscles; proteins content; testosterone level; MHC isoforms.
Abstract:
The use of cellular technology is overwhelming our lives these days. Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) waves -the basis of cellular technology - are high frequency, high energy electromagnetic waves that may pause as a threat to man. The current work studies the effect of such waves on two types of skeletal muscles, the slow and fast twitching muscles in adult male rats. The activity, morphology, and structure of the affected muscles are studied and analyzed against control. Experiments evaluate changes in body weight, muscle mass, water and protein content, total RNA concentration, testosterone level, and Myosin Heavy Chain (MHC) isoforms expression. Our results shows that in both muscles, there are changes in the distribution of muscles proteins and in the percentage of MHC isoforms suggesting that the GSM antenna relay affects the plasticity of skeletal muscle fiber by transforming slow type to faster one.
Pages: 1 to 9
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2015
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2660