%0 Journal Article
%T Analysis of proteome response to the mobile phone radiation in two types of human primary endothelial cells
%A Reetta Nylund
%A Niels Kuster
%A Dariusz Leszczynski
%J Proteome Science
%D 2010
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1477-5956-8-52
%X Primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells and primary human brain microvascular endothelial cells were exposed for 1 hour to 1800 MHz GSM mobile phone radiation at an average specific absorption rate of 2.0 W/kg. The cells were harvested immediately after the exposure and the protein expression patterns of the sham-exposed and radiation-exposed cells were examined using two dimensional difference gel electrophoresis-based proteomics (2DE-DIGE). There were observed numerous differences between the proteomes of human umbilical vein endothelial cells and human brain microvascular endothelial cells (both sham-exposed). These differences are most likely representing physiological differences between endothelia in different vascular beds. However, the exposure of both types of primary endothelial cells to mobile phone radiation did not cause any statistically significant changes in protein expression.Exposure of primary human endothelial cells to the mobile phone radiation, 1800 MHz GSM signal for 1 hour at an average specific absorption rate of 2.0 W/kg, does not affect protein expression, when the proteomes were examined immediately after the end of the exposure and when the false discovery rate correction was applied to analysis. This observation agrees with our earlier study showing that the 1800 MHz GSM radiation exposure had only very limited effect on the proteome of human endothelial cell line EA.hy926, as compared with the effect of 900 MHz GSM radiation.The use of mobile phones has widely increased over the past decade. In spite of the extensive research, the question of the possible health effects of the mobile phone radiation remains open. In 2001 we have proposed [1] and subsequently demonstrated [2] that proteomics could be used as a tool to find the protein targets that are affected by the mobile phone radiation. Based on the knowledge which proteins respond to the mobile phone radiation, new hypotheses about the possible biological effects might be pu
%U http://www.proteomesci.com/content/8/1/52