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Cellular Respiration in Intermittent Magnetic Fields.

1967; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 124; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3181/00379727-124-31795

1535-3702

Manuel Rodrigues Pereira, Leo G. Nutini, John C. Fardon, Elton S. Cook,

Biofield Effects and Biophysics

SummaryTable I details the individual data on response of the different tissues (except the HeLa cells) to the magnetic fields. The application of fields of or greater than a critical value of approximately 80-85 gauss to ascites sarcoma 37, mouse embryo kidney and liver, young neonatal mouse liver, and (in limited experiments) HeLa cells, produced a significant lowering of respiration. Increase of field strength to 10000 gauss (125 times the critical value) resulted in no greater effect. The oxygen consumption of adult mouse kidney and liver and older neonatal mouse liver tissue cells was not affected by any intermittent magnetic fields. The respiration of yeast cells was significantly stimulated by fields of 85 gauss or above. The response to the fields was prompt and reversible for all affected cells. The overall results suggest that more actively proliferating cells are most responsive to the fields. At this time no explanation is advanced for the effects.