Evaluation of the mobile phone electromagnetic radiation on serum iron parameters in rats.

Murat Çetkin1, Can Demirel, Neşe Kızılkan, Nur Aksoy, Hülya Erbağcı
1. Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Science, European
University of Lefke, Lefke, TRNC
2. Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
3. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
4. Gaziantep/Şehitkamil

Abstract
Background: Electromagnetic fields (EMF) created by mobile phones during communication have harmful effects on different organs.

Objectives:It was aimed to investigate the effects of an EMF created by a mobile phone on serum iron level, ferritin, unsaturated iron binding capacity and total iron binding capacity within a rat experiment model.

Methods: A total of 32 male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into the control, sham, mobile phone speech (2h/day) and stand by (12 h/day) groups. The speech and stand by groups were subjected to the EMF for a total of 10 weeks.

Results: No statistically significant difference was observed between the serum iron and ferritin values of the rats in the speech and stand by groups than the control and sham groups (p>0.05). The unsaturated iron binding capacity and total iron capacity values of the rats in the speech and stand by groups were significantly lower in comparison to the control group (p<0.01).

Conclusion: It was found that exposure to EMF created by mobile phones affected unsaturated iron binding capacity and total iron binding capacity negatively.

Keywords:cellular phone, electromagnetic fields, ferritin, serum iron