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Cataracts and Other Ocular Effects

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Cataract is the best known of all eye diseases, but despite wide public awareness and research that has been devoted to elucidation of its etiology, knowledge of the biochemistry of the normal and pathological lens is still somewhat fragmentary. During the past 25 years, numerous investigations in animals and several surveys among human populations have been devoted to assessing the relationship between exposure to microwaves and subsequent development of cataracts. It is significant that of the many experiments on rabbits by several investigators using various techniques, power density >100 mW/cm2 for 1 hr or longer appears to be the lowest time—power threshold in the frequency range of 2450 to 10,000 Hz. In other species of animals such as dogs and nonhuman primates, the threshold for experimental microwave-induced cataract appears to be even higher. Data that are presented to indicate nonthermal, cumulative, or direct cellular effects are equivocal. If one carefully reviews the human data that are presently available, little is added to our knowledge of microwave cataractogenesis.

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Michaelson, S.M., Lin, J.C. (1987). Cataracts and Other Ocular Effects. In: Biological Effects and Health Implications of Radiofrequency Radiation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4614-3_18

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