Open AccessEXPLORATORY STUDIES OF THE INFLUENCE OF WIRELESS EQUIPMENT ON THE BODY OF LABORATORY ANIMALS
Author(s) -
Е. В. Зибарев,
A. S. Afanasev,
O. V. Slusareva,
Irina D. Bulavina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gigiena i sanitariâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2412-0650
pISSN - 0016-9900
DOI - 10.18821/0016-9900-2017-96-7-661-664
Subject(s) - open field , psychology , router , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , computer network
Тhe article presents results of exploratory research on the assessment of the impact of Wi-Fi equipment on the organism of laboratory animals. The study was executed in a specially equipped semi-anechoic chambers, to eliminate the influence of other sources, which can have a direct or indirect impact on animals. As a source of EMR there was used the router for wireless access to the Internet (brand: ZyXEL KeeneticExtra). Laboratory animals (20 white male mice), and control group (20 animals)were placed at a distance of 0.5 m and 1 m from the EMR source in a room without EMR source. Weekly every laboratory animal performed tests on the assessment of behavioral reactions, depression and working memory using the test «open field», «T-maze», «forced swimming». After 36-days round-the-clock exposure in animals there was a decrease in indices of horizontal and vertical locomotor activity, the development of the depressive state on the 25th day of the study.