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Tissue interaction with nonionizing electromagnetic fields. Final report
Abstract
Studies of the effects of environmental low frequency electromagnetic fields on isolated cellular systems and tissue preparations derived from brain, bone, blood, and pancreas are reported. Behavioral effects of 60 Hz fields were examined in monkeys. Bioeffects of low level microwave fields modulated at 60 Hz and other ELF frequencies were also examined. Findings in the present studies emphasize a key role for cell membrane surfaces in detecting ELF environmental fields. Two broad groups of exposure techniques have been utilized. In the ELF spectrum, 60 Hz environmental fields were imposed on monkeys during behavioral task performance. Field intensities from 50 to 1000 V/m were tested in different experiments. The monkeys were exposed to a horizontal electric field. In tissue and cell culture preparations, ELF electric fields were generated by passing current between electrodes in the solutions bathing the tissue. Tissue and cell preparations were also tested with low frequency, pulsed magnetic fields by placing the biological preparation inside Helmholtz coils. For ELF dosimetry measurements in tissue preparations, electric gradients were measured directly in relation to specific axes of tissue and cell preparations. Exposures to ELF modulated 450 MHz microwave fields were conducted in two different systems, one uses a largemore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Veterans Administration Hospital, Loma Linda, CA (USA); California Univ., Riverside (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6149860
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ET/29078-T1
ON: DE81027654
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT01-79ET29078
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; BRAIN; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; LYMPHOCYTES; MONKEYS; BEHAVIOR; NERVE CELLS; CELL CULTURES; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; HZ RANGE; MHZ RANGE; TISSUE CULTURES; ANIMAL CELLS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BLOOD; BLOOD CELLS; BODY; BODY FLUIDS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; FREQUENCY RANGE; FUNCTIONS; LEUKOCYTES; MAMMALS; MATERIALS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PRIMATES; SOMATIC CELLS; VERTEBRATES; 560400* - Other Environmental Pollutant Effects; 550100 - Behavioral Biology; 550300 - Cytology; 551000 - Physiological Systems
Citation Formats
Adey, W R, Bawin, S M, Lawrence, A F, Lin-Liu, S, Luben, R A, Lundak, R L, Sagan, P M, and Sheppard, A R. Tissue interaction with nonionizing electromagnetic fields. Final report. United States: N. p., 1981.
Web.
Adey, W R, Bawin, S M, Lawrence, A F, Lin-Liu, S, Luben, R A, Lundak, R L, Sagan, P M, & Sheppard, A R. Tissue interaction with nonionizing electromagnetic fields. Final report. United States.
Adey, W R, Bawin, S M, Lawrence, A F, Lin-Liu, S, Luben, R A, Lundak, R L, Sagan, P M, and Sheppard, A R. 1981.
"Tissue interaction with nonionizing electromagnetic fields. Final report". United States.
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title = {Tissue interaction with nonionizing electromagnetic fields. Final report},
author = {Adey, W R and Bawin, S M and Lawrence, A F and Lin-Liu, S and Luben, R A and Lundak, R L and Sagan, P M and Sheppard, A R},
abstractNote = {Studies of the effects of environmental low frequency electromagnetic fields on isolated cellular systems and tissue preparations derived from brain, bone, blood, and pancreas are reported. Behavioral effects of 60 Hz fields were examined in monkeys. Bioeffects of low level microwave fields modulated at 60 Hz and other ELF frequencies were also examined. Findings in the present studies emphasize a key role for cell membrane surfaces in detecting ELF environmental fields. Two broad groups of exposure techniques have been utilized. In the ELF spectrum, 60 Hz environmental fields were imposed on monkeys during behavioral task performance. Field intensities from 50 to 1000 V/m were tested in different experiments. The monkeys were exposed to a horizontal electric field. In tissue and cell culture preparations, ELF electric fields were generated by passing current between electrodes in the solutions bathing the tissue. Tissue and cell preparations were also tested with low frequency, pulsed magnetic fields by placing the biological preparation inside Helmholtz coils. For ELF dosimetry measurements in tissue preparations, electric gradients were measured directly in relation to specific axes of tissue and cell preparations. Exposures to ELF modulated 450 MHz microwave fields were conducted in two different systems, one uses a large anechoic horn chamber, the other utilizes a Crawford cell, a double-tapered coaxial system.Environmental field levels and tissue components of these fields were studied collaboratively using implantable tissue probes developed by BRH. Concurrent environmental field levels were based on measurements with other BRH probes and a NARDA microwave probe system. (ERB)},
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year = {Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1981},
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