Table 2.
Types of chromosomal aberrations induced by radiofrequency radiations.
| Mitosis stage | S. No | Abnormalities | Control (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative control (0 H) | Positive control Gamma rays (250 Gy) | 24 (H) | 48 (H) | 24 (H) | 48 (H) | |||
| Metaphase | 1 | Sticky metaphase | 0 | 31 | 0 | 27 | 33 | 0 |
| 2 | Translocations | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Distributed metaphase | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Anaphase | 4 | Scattered nuclei | 0 | 34 | 118 | 0 | 130 | 60 |
| 5 | Laggard | 0 | 43 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Fragmentation | 0 | 36 | 25 | 117 | 39 | 183 | |
| Interphase | 7 | Micronuclei | 0 | 0 | 25 | 43 | 16 | 25 |
| 8 | Multinuclei | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | |
| 9 | Dinuclei | 0 | 0 | 67 | 73 | 27 | 50 | |