Abstract
Mobile phones are now a part and parcel of our life. We all is well aware of its use but the other side of the coins says that it is also causing great damage to our body. Keeping this factor in mind the main aims and objective of my study is to read the effect of mobile phone radiations on various changes occurring in pancreatic tissues of male spargue dawley rats. In order to carry out the experiment male rats of weighting 90-110 gms which were divided into two groups ie control and experimental were subjected to mobile phone radiations for a duration of 3 months continiously for one hour daily in specially designed cage for exposing them to radiations. At the end of each month both the group of rats were sacrificed and pancreatic tissues were collected and underwent processing to obtain histological slides stained with H& E. Also fasting blood glucose level was measured of both the group of rats. The experiment showed that Control group of rats showed the normal histological picture ie well formed acini and islet of langerhans, however rats sacrified from experimental group of first month also showed more or less normal histological picture as that of control group. Rats sacrificed after second month of radiation doses showed changes in the histological picture as the acini showed disturbances in architecture also the blood vessels showed engorgement. A completely distorted histological picture which could be very well appreciated was observed after the study of slides obtained by the sacrifice of rats which underwent 3 months of radiation exposure. As far as the fasting glucose level is concerned it also showed a continious increase with increase in the dose of radiation which may be due to effect of radition on beta cells of pancreas. hence it was concluded that the radiation which is emitted from the mobile phone has a damaging effect on pancreatic tissues of rats and hence its metabolism.
Keywords: mobile radiation, pancreas, microscopic picture, glucose level.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Shalini Gupta
Department of Anatomy, BRD Medical College Gorakhpur, India
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i11.146
