Many higher animals have evolved the ability to use the Earth's magnetic field, particularly for orientation. Drosophila melanogaster also respond to electromagnetic fields (EMFs), although the reported effects are quite modest. Here we report that negative geotaxis in flies, scored as climbing, is disrupted by a static EMF, and this is mediated by cryptochrome (CRY), the blue-light circadian p...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The purpose of this study was to explore the in vitro putative genotoxicity during exposure of Neuro-2a cells to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) with or without silencing of 8-oxoG DNA glycosylase-1 (OGG1). METHODS Neuro-2a cells treated with or without OGG1 siRNA were exposed to 900 MHz Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) Talk signals continuously at ...

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...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The possibility that long-term mobile phone use increases the incidence of astrocytoma, glioma and acoustic neuroma has been investigated in several studies. Recently, our group showed that direct exposure (in a surgical setting) to cell phone electromagnetic fields (EMFs) induces deterioration of auditory evoked cochlear nerve compound action potential (CNAP) in humans. T...

For the past two decades, there have been concerns and controversy about the effects on human health of the increased exposure to extremely-low-frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) resulting from electrification, in both residential and industrial settings. Several epidemiological studies have implicated ELF-EMFs averaging 0.4 μTesla (T) or more in increased risk of cancer, especially ...

In everyday life, people are exposed to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) with multiple frequencies. To evaluate the possible adverse effects of multifrequency RF EMFs, we performed an experiment in which pregnant rats and their delivered offspring were simultaneously exposed to eight different communication signal EMFs (two of 800 MHz band, two of 2 GHz band, one of 2.4 GHz ban...

Many environmental stressors are currently implicated in the decline of flying insects general, and important pollinator species such as honey bee. Recent studies have shown that extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF EMFs) affect many aspects insect behaviour cognition which raises potential ELF EMFs could interact with other neonicotinoid insecticides to even greater impact on in...

The growing use of wireless communication devices has been significantly increasing the level high frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in environment, which raises a concern for possible deleterious effects on living organisms. Long lasting exposure to low-intensity EMFs can cause molecular and cellular level, number morphological physiological changes. aim this work was investigate 2.41 GH...

the effects of electromagnetic fields (emfs) radiation at the frequency of 940 mhz on the structure and function of human adult and fetal hemoglobin (hba and hbf) were studied. after extraction and purification of hba and hbf, the oxygen absorption values for exposed and unexposed hba and hbf to emf were compared. the slope of oxygen absorption curve for exposed hba was increased while that for...

The results are given of approximate calculations the relative permittivity εr conductive unmagnetic materials (metals and alloys) for a special case when conductivity displacement currents equal in homogeneous medium. above mentioned widely used electric power engineering high-voltage pulse conditions alternating (pulse) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) with different peak-temporal parameters act...