"Recently, concerns have been raised about the expansion of environmental electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and the increasing incidence of vestibular schwannoma (VS)."
"The expression of motility proteins increased, while that of cell-to-cell adhesion proteins decreased. The functional clustering of genes differentially expressed matched those involved in hearing loss."
Exposure
"Cells were exposed to 50 Hz 0.1 T EMF (at room temperature) for 10-min treatment per day for 5 consecutive days (every 24 h, at the same daytime) mimicking the chronic exposure [...] The EMF was generated using a magnetic field generator, specifically designed and customized by Ugo Basile (Gemonio, Italy) [...] Cells used as controls (i.e., sham-exposure) were plated in the same culture conditions, maintained in the same temperature conditions, but were not exposed to the EMF."
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