Environmental Fields (EMF) Interact with Living Systems to Affect Health (book chapter)
Panagopoulos, DJ.
Electromagnetic Interaction between Environmental Fields and Living Systems
Determines Health and Well-Being. In Kwang, MH. and Yoon, SO. (eds.) Electromagnetic
Fields: Principles, Engineering Applications and Biophysical Effects. Nova
Publishers. 2013. URL: https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=37822
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Summary (from Abstract)
The chapter presents data
showing the electric nature of the natural environment and living organisms and
discusses how the interaction between the two, determines health and
well-being.
A brief theoretical
background of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and the differences between natural
and man-made electromagnetic radiation are discussed.
The electromagnetic nature
of the natural environment is discussed – terrestrial electric and magnetic
fields, natural radiation from the sun and stars, cosmic microwaves and natural
radioactivity. All living organisms live in harmony with these fields as long
as these fields are within normal levels and not disturbed by changes, usually
in solar activity.
The electrical nature of all
living organisms is determined by electrical properties of cell membranes, the
circadian biological clock, endogenous electric currents within cells and
tissues, and intracellular ionic oscillations.
The periodicity of our
natural environment mainly determined by movement of the earth around its axis
and around the sun implies the periodic function of the suprahiasmatic nuclei
(SCN) - a group of neurons located above the optic chiasm - which constitute
the central circadian biological clock in mammals. The chapter describes: 1)
the probable connection between the central biological clock with the
endogenous electric oscillations within cells and organs constituting the
“peripheral clocks”; 2) how the central clock controls the function of
peripheral ones in the heart, brain, and all parts of the body by electrical
and chemical signals; 3) how cellular/tissue functions are initiated and
controlled by endogenous (intracellular/trans-cellular) weak electric currents
consisting of directed free ion flows through the cytoplasm and the plasma
membrane, and 4) the connection of these currents with the function of the
circadian biological clock.
Experimental data are
presented which show that the endogenous electric currents and the functions they
control can be easily varied by externally applied EMF of similar or even
smaller intensities than those generating the endogenous currents.
Two possible ways by which
external EMFs like those produced by human technology can distort the
physiological endogenous electric currents and the corresponding
biological/physiological functions are discussed: 1) by direct interference
between the external and the endogenous fields and, 2) by alteration of the
intracellular ionic concentrations (i.e. by changing the number of electric
current carriers within the cells) after irregular gating of electrosensitive
ion channels on the cell membranes.
Finally, the chapter
discusses how maintenance of this EMF equilibrium between living organisms and
the natural environment, determines health and well-being, and how its
disturbance will inevitably lead sooner or later to health effects.
Book’s Table of Contents
-Earth’s Natural
Electromagnetic Noises in a Very-Low Frequency Band (Yury P. Malyshkov, Sergey
Yu. Malyshkov, Vasily F. Gordeev, Sergey G. Shtalin, Vitaly I. Polivach,
Vladimir A. Krutikov, Michail M. Zaderigolova, Institute of Monitoring of
Climate and Ecosystems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science,
Russia, and others)
-Electromagnetic Interaction
between Environmental Fields and Living Systems Determines Health and
Well-Being (Dimitris J. Panagopoulos,
University of Athens, Department of Biology, Athens, Greece, and others)
-Thermodynamics of Surface
Electromagnetic Waves (Illarion Dorofeyev,
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny,
Novgorod, Russia)
-Magnetic Field Originated by
Power Lines (J.A. Brandão Faria, M.E.
Almeida Pedro, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico,
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
-Microwave Heating for
Metallurgical Engineering (Jingjing Yang, Ming Huang,
Jinhui Peng, Wireless Innovation Lab, School of Information Science and
Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, People’s Republic of China, and
others)
-Extremely Low Frequency
Electromagnetic Field and Cytokines Production (M. Reale, P. Amerio, Dept.
of Experimental and Clinical Sciences, Dept. of Aging Medicine and Science
(DMSI), Dermatologic Clinic, University "G. d'Annunzio"
Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy)
-High Frequency Induction
Heating for High Quality Injection Molding (Keun Park, Seoul National
University of Science & Technology, Seoul, Korea)
-Electromagnetic
Characterization of Electrically Small Piezoelectric Antennas and Waveguiding
Devices for Detection of Cancer-Related Anomalies in Biological Tissues (Diego Caratelli, Alessandro
Massaro, Delft University of Technology, Microwave Technology and Systems for
Radar (MTS-Radar), Delft, the Netherlands, and others)
-Electro-Magnetic Field
Induced Entropy Production in a Cell: Its Difference between Cancerous and
Normal Cells (Liaofu Luo, Changjiang
Ding, School of Physical Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China, and
others)
-An Evaluation of Neurotoxicity
Markers in Rat Brains, using a Pre-Convulsive Model and Exposure to 900 MHZ
Modulated GSM Radio Frequency (María Elena López-Martín,
Francisco José Ares-Pena, Morphological Sciences Department, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
and others)
-The Effect of Settlement
Reoccupation on Electromagnetic Induction Data Sets in Archaeology (Daniel P. Bigman,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA)
-New Cooperative Effects in
Single- and Two-Photon Interactions of Radiators with Electromagnetic
Bath (Nicolae Enaki, Quantum
Optics and Kinetic Process Laboratory, Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of
Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau MD)
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