A test of lymphoma induction by long-term exposure of E mu-Pim1 transgenic mice to 50 Hz magnetic fields
- Author(s)
- Harris, AW; Basten, A; Gebski, V; Noonan, D; Finnie, J; Bath, ML; Bangay, MJ; Repacholi, MH;
- Details
- Publication Year 1998-03,Volume 149,Issue #3,Page 300-307
- Journal Title
- RADIATION RESEARCH
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- E mu-Pim1 transgenic mice expressing a dysregulated Pim1 oncogene in their lymphoid cells were used to test whether exposure to 50 Hz magnetic fields can increase the frequency of malignant lymphoma in mice of a strain predisposed to develop such tumors spontaneously at low incidence. Specific-pathogen-free female mice were allocated randomly into groups of approximately 100 at 6-8 weeks of age and then exposed for 20 h/day for up to 18 months to sinusoidal magnetic fields of 0, 1, 100 or 1000 mu T, or 1000 mu T pulsed 15 min on and 15 min off. Additional E mu-Pim1 mice were injected with ethylnitrosourea (50 mg/kg body weight) as positive controls for enhanced lymphomagenesis; these yielded a cumulative incidence of lymphoma of 60% in 9 months. A lethal, transgene-dependent renal glomerular disease occurred at a frequency that varied from 9% to 19% among the groups, but the increase was statistically significant only at the 1000-mu T exposure. Lymphoblastic and non-lymphoblastic (predominantly follicular) lymphomas were seen in 26 to 35% of the exposed mice, but at no significantly higher incidence than the 29% found in the sham-exposed mice. Hence we conclude that the lymphoma-prone mice did not reveal any tumorigenic effect of long-term exposure to 50 Hz magnetic fields. (C) 1998 by Radiation Research Society.
- Publisher
- RADIATION RESEARCH SOC
- Keywords
- ELECTRIC UTILITY WORKERS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; HIGH-FREQUENCY; MOUSE-SKIN; N-MYC; CANCER; LEUKEMIA; TUMORS; PIM-1; PROMOTION
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3579964
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Creation Date: 1998-03-01 12:00:00