The Effects of Bio-inspired Electromagnetic Fields on Normal and Cancer Cells

Abstract

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The Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Human Health: Recent Advances and Future

“…The high frequency is con-sidered to represent the local membrane vibration driven by the nanopipettes electroosmotic flow, whereas the low frequency represents the natural pulsation frequency of the entire cell [6] . In line with these findings, our pre-vious work has shown that EMF of 0.5 Hz selected em-pirically can effectively inhibit the proliferation of low-density Hela cells [49] . It is probably because the frequency used in our experiment coincides with or close to the natural pulsation frequency of Hela cells and such a resonance may cause rupture or some other damages on the membrane, which requires further in-vestigation.…”

“…Beside the above investigations on the effect of EMFs on breast cancer, a clinical assessment (Phase I/II study) of the efficiency and safety for very low levels of amplitude-modulated EMF treatment on advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been reported by Costa et al [52] [52] This work has demonstrated that the amplitude-modulated EMF is safe and possesses a posi-tive anticancer effect on patients with advanced HCC. Also to this end, our previous study has demonstrated that an ELF-EMF mimicking the frequency of cell pulsation has an inhibitory effect on the proliferation of Hela cells, but without observable adverse side effects on normal cells [49] .…”

“…Natural electromagnetic activities, such as GMF, SR, brain waves, heart waves and cell pulsations, etc., can provide us with ample bionic inspirations. Our previous research has proved that bio-inspired EMF (0.5 Hz, 35 μT -70 μT) can reduce the ATP synthesis of certain cancer cells and inhibit the proliferation of cervical cancer cells (Hela) [49] . It is noteworthy that the intensity of this bio-inspired EMF is equivalent to GMF, which means higher safety.…”

Genes and Cancer under Magnetic Control

“…It was pointed out that a large number of studies have shown that microwave radiation can cause a series of adverse reactions in the central nervous system, including sleep disorders in addition to learning and memory impairments [ 6 ]. The elevated risks of dementia, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy in relation to exposure to low-frequency magnetic fields was observed [ 7 ]. The hazards of electromagnetic fields for the human health and the mortality induced by the fields were also emphasized by statistical analysis [ 8 ].…”