Has diagnostic ultrasound mutagenic effects?
Chinese hamster ovary cells were treated with ultrasound from a fetal pulse detector (Eucotone, Siemens) operated at 10 mW/cm2 and 2.2 MHz. The frequencies of structural chromosomal aberrations and of sister chromatid exchanges were not increased by the treatment. There was no indication of single-strand breaks induced by ultrasound in the G2 phase of the cell cycle.
D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002875:Chromosomes; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D003434:Crossing Over, Genetic; D005260:Female; D009153:Mutagens; D010053:Ovary; D012854:Sister Chromatid Exchange; D014465:Ultrasonics
D009153:Mutagens