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Dr Sarah J. Buckley
[2015 May] 50 Human Studies, in Utero, Conducted in Modern China, Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography by Jim West 1) Supports Western critics who have long argued that ultrasound contributes to various neonatal and childhood diseases, and neurological epidemics such as ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and eye diseases. 2) Supports and revives earlier Western animal studies that are critical of ultrasound, yet had been rejected or ignored. 3) Enables arguments for novel disease causation models, for example, chorioamnionitis, neonatal jaundice, bone and tissue malformation, immune dysfunction, and a wide variety of diseases related to broad-spectrum hormonal dysfunction.
[2013] Ultrasound: Prematurity and Potential Risks by Beverley Lawrence Beech
[2012 May] When Do The Benefits Of Ultrasound Outweigh The Dangers? by Judy Cohain, CNM Since the ability of ultrasound to both diagnose and improve outcomes of severe defects is close to non-existant in most locations, routine prenatal ultrasound screening is most often simply the best way to terrify a pregnant woman.
[2011] Weighing the Risks: What You Should Know about Ultrasound By Sarah Buckley
[2006] Questions about Prenatal Ultrasound and the Alarming Increase in Autism by Caroline Rodgers
[2005] Ultrasound Scans- Cause for Concern by Dr Sarah J. Buckley
[1999] Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts by Beverley Lawrence Beech
[1999] Ultrasound: More Harm than Good? by Marsden Wagner
Dr. Alice Stewart, a UK epidemiologist, learned back in the early 1980s that there were increased leukemias among children who had been exposed to ultrasound in the womb. Researchers have more recently discovered evidence that boys who've been exposed to ultrasound in late pregnancy have a greater amount of left-handedness than those who had no ultrasound exposure, suggesting that ultrasound has a definite effect on the brain. BTW, Dr. Alice Stewart lived a remarkable and fascinating life, having done the infamous Hanford Workers Study wherein she and Dr. Thomas Mancuso showed that the government's previous study was faulty and purposely downplayed cancer in nuclear workers at Hanford. Her life is chronicled in a very interesting book: The Woman Who Knew Too Much.
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Effect of prenatal ultrasound exposure on adult behavior in mice.
Hande MP, Devi PU, Karanth KS.
Department of Radiobiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
Pregnant Swiss mice were exposed to diagnostic levels of ultrasound (3.5 MHz, Maximum acoustic output: ISPTP = 1 W/cm2 and ISATA = 240 mW/cm2, acoustic power = 65 mW) for 10 min on days 11.5 or 14.5 postcoitus (PC). At 3 and 6 months postpartum, offspring were subjected to the following behavioral tests: bright and dark arena test for locomotor/exploratory activity and passive avoidance test for learning and memory. Anxiolytic activity and latency in learning were noticed in the ultrasound-treated animals. The effect was more pronounced in the 14.5 days PC group than in the 11.5 days PC group. But memory was not affected in the ultrasound-exposed animals. There was a nonsignificant decrease in the total locomotor activity at 6 months of age in all the exposed animals. Thus, the present data demonstrate that exposure to diagnostic ultrasound during late organogenesis period or early fetal period in mice may cause changes in postnatal behavior as evidence by selected adult offspring behavioral tests. However, any conclusive statement in this regard should await results from more detailed investigations.
PMID: 8302245 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=8302245&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
Long-term effects of diagnostic ultrasound during fetal period on postnatal development and adult behavior of mouse
R. Suresha, P. Uma Devib, N. Ovchinnikova and A. McRaea
a Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences University of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
b Department of Radiobiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India
Received 21 August 2001; accepted 18 January 2002. Available online 17 April 2002.
Abstract
Pregnant Swiss albino mice were exposed to diagnostic levels of ultrasound (3.5 MHz, intensity 65 mW, ISPTP = 1 W/cm2, ISATA = 240 W/cm2) for 10, 20 and 30 minutes on day 14 of gestation. Sham exposed controls were maintained for comparison. Fifteen pregnant mice were exposed for each group. Exposed as well as control animals were left to complete gestation and parturition. Ultrasound induced changes in maternal vaginal temperature was recorded. The changes in the physiological reflexes and postnatal mortality up to 6 weeks of age were recorded. The litters were subjected to behavioral tests for locomotor activity, learning and memory at 4 month and 1 year of age. Neither the physiological reflexes nor the postnatal mortality was affected by ultrasound exposure. However, there was a noticeable impairment in both locomotor and learning behavior even after a 10 min exposure, which further increased with increases in exposure time. Thus the present study demonstrates the neurotoxicity of diagnostic ultrasound and the high susceptibility of early fetal brain to induction of lasting detrimental changes by ultrasound exposure.
Effect of diagnostic ultrasound during the fetal period on learning and memory in mice
R. Suresh, a, , T. Ramesh Raoa, E.M. Davisa, Nikolai Ovchinnikova and A. Mc Raea
Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger
Article in Press, Corrected Proof
Background
An experiment was conducted to find out whether in utero exposure to diagnostic ultrasound leads to changes in postnatal behavior in adult mice.
Methods
A total of 15 pregnant Swiss albino mice were exposed to diagnostic levels of ultrasound (3.5 MHz, 65 mW/cm2, intensity(spatial peak−temporal peak) (ISPTP)=1 mW/cm2, intensity(spatial average−temporal average) (ISATA)=240 mW/cm2) for 30 min on day 14 or 16 of gestation. All exposed as well as control animals were left to complete gestation and parturition. Their offspring were used in our further studies. They were monitored during early postnatal life for standard developmental markers (such as pinna detachment, eye opening and fur development) and postnatal mortality was recorded up to 6 weeks of age. The litters were subjected to behavioral tests for learning and memory at 4 months of age. Representative animals from each group were sacrificed and the hippocampal region of the brain was assayed for biogenic amines, noradrenaline, dopamine, serotonin (5-HT) and 5-HT's metabolite, 5-hydroxy indoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), in order to determine whether ultrasound exposure produced any biochemical changes in the hippocampal region of the brain. Coronal sections from the dorsal hippocampus from the representative animals from each group were processed for staining and the number of neurons was counted.
Results
Neither the standard developmental markers (such as pinna detachment, eye opening and fur development) nor the postnatal mortality was affected by ultrasound exposure. However, there was a significant impairment in learning (hole board test) and memory functions (shuttle box test) in both the exposure groups. Significant reductions in the biogenic amines and the decrease in the neuronal density were found only in day 14th pc ultrasound-exposed group compared with the control animals. The 16th day exposure group is relatively resistant to ultrasound-induced impairment of brain functions.
Conclusions
The results suggest that the early fetal brain is highly susceptible to induction of neurobehavioral changes by ultrasound exposure.
Keywords: Behavior; Gestation; Ultrasound; Neurotoxicity
Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 868 645 2640x4627(Off.)/1 868 645 2640x1863(Res.); fax: +1 868 662 9148.
Anatomy and Cell Biology Unit, Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
Received 9 January 2007; accepted 13 May 2007. Available online 23 October 2007.