Testing of behavioral and cognitive development in rats after prenatal exposure to 1800 and 2400 MHz radiofrequency fields

" The body weight of the 1800 MHz group and the 1800 MHz + WiFi group showed a downward trend. The eye opening time of newborn rats was much earlier in the WiFi group than in the control group. Compared to the control group, the overall path length of the 1800 MHz + WiFi group was shortened and the stationary time was delayed. The path length of the WiFi group was shortened and the average velocity was increased in the error arm. The 1800 MHz + WiFi group displayed an increased trend in path length, duration, entry times and stationary time in the central area. In both the 1800 MHz + WiFi and WiFi groups, NR2A and NR2B expression was down-regulated, while NR2D, NR3A and NR3B were up-regulated. Moreover, NR1 and NR2C in the WiFi group were also up-regulated. Prenatal exposure to 1800 MHz and WiFi radiofrequency may affect the behavioral and cognitive development of offspring rats, which may be associated with altered mRNA expression of NMDARs in the hippocampus." {Credits 1}

{Credits 1} 🎪 Zhi-qiang Li, Yuan Zhang, Yue-Meng Wan, Qiong Zhou, Chang Liu, Hui-Xin Wu, Yun-Zheng Mu, Yue-Feng He, Ritika Rauniyar, Xi-Nan Wu, Testing of behavioral and cognitive development in rats after prenatal exposure to 1800 and 2400 MHz radiofrequency fields, Journal of Radiation Research, , rrz097, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrr/rrz097. © The Author(s) 2020. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.