The aim of the present study was to find out the effects of low frequency electromagnetic field (EMF) 50 Hz 10 mT on the rat electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded from the rat brain cortex and from the skull surface. The rats were, whole body, exposed to this EMF intensity one hour daily for 7 days. Recovery study was done after one week from stopping the EMF exposure. The effects of the filed we...

With the explosive increase in exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by mobile phones, public concerns have grown over the last few decades with regard to the potential effects of EMF exposure on the nervous system in the brain. Many researchers have suggested that RF-EMFs can effect diverse neuronal alterations in the brain, thereby affecting neuronal functions as ...

Studies on myocardial function have shown that hsp70, stimulated by an increase in temperature, leads to improved survival following ischemia-reperfusion (I-R). Low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) also induce the stress protein hsp70, but without elevating temperature. We have examined the hemodynamic changes in concert with EMF pre-conditioning and the induction of hsp70 to determine w...

Electromagnetic fields (EMF), in both ELF (extremely low frequency) and radio frequency (RF) ranges, activate the cellular stress response, a protective mechanism that induces the expression of stress response genes, e.g., HSP70, and increased levels of stress proteins, e.g., hsp70. The 20 different stress protein families are evolutionarily conserved and act as 'chaperones' in the cell when th...

The involvement of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) in the neurodegenerative disease, especially Alzheimer's disease (AD), has received wide consideration, however, outcomes from several researches have not shown consistency. In this study, we determined whether RF-EMF influenced AD pathology in vivo using Tg-5xFAD mice as a model of AD-like amyloid β (Aβ) pathology. The transgeni...

We investigated the effect of high-frequency electromagnetic fields (HF-EMFs) and 17-β-estradiol on connexins (Cxs), integrins (Ints), and estrogen receptor (ER) expression, as well as on ultrastructure of trophoblast-derived HTR-8/SVneo cells. HF-EMF, 17-β-estradiol, and their combination induced an increase of Cx40 and Cx43 mRNA expression. HF-EMF decreased Int alpha1 and β 1 mRNA levels but ...

In recent years, there has been an unprecedented increase in the use of devices emitting electromagnetic fields (EMF). This impinges on every aspect of day-to-day living, whether in the home, in public places or at work. While the benefits to society of such technologies, for example in mobile and other personal radio-communications, are accepted, significant public and media concern continues ...

Background 1. Other than reported by the authors, the cited study by Linet et al. (1997) (p. 4, l. 45) did not come to the conclusion that residential exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) increased the risk of lymphoblastic leukemia in children Response: As suggested by another Reviewer, we restructured the Background and appended some valuable studies as references. The study by Linet et a...

Epidemiological studies suggest that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in the environment may be associated with mutagenic changes, but the relation between EMF exposure and aneuploidy has not previously been studied. Environmental EMFs apparently lack the energy necessary to function as aneugens, but the possibility exists that EMFs could influence the incidence of aneuploidy synergist...

PURPOSE To investigate the hypothesis that exposure to a certain combination of static and time-varying electromagnetic fields (EMF) results in an increase in motility of the marine diatom Amphora coffeaeformis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Diatom motility on agar was positively correlated with calcium ion (Ca2+) concentration. In previous experiments extremely low frequency EMF (16 Hz) had the grea...