Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia (greek for "glue"), are non-neuronal cells that provide support and nutrition, maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and participate in signal transmission in the nervous system. In the human brain, glia are estimated to outnumber neurons by about 10 to 1.[1]
Glial cells provide support and protection for neurons, the other main type of cell in the central nervous system. They are thus known as the "glue" of the nervous system. The four main functions of glial cells are to surround neurons and hold them in place, to supply nutrients and oxygen to neurons, to insulate one neuron from another, and to destroy pathogens and remove dead neurons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glial_cell
Toxicology. 2007 May 26; [Epub ahead of print]
Effect of an acute 900MHz GSM exposure on glia in the rat brain: A time-dependent study.
Brillaud E, Piotrowski A, de Seze R.
INERIS, Unité de Toxicologie Expérimentale, Parc Technologique ALATA, BP no. 2, 60550 Verneuil-en-Halatte, France.
Because of the increasing use of mobile phones, the possible risks of radio frequency electromagnetic fields adverse effects on the human brain has to be evaluated. In this work we measured GFAP expression, to evaluate glial evolution 2, 3, 6 and 10 days after a single GSM exposure (15min, brain averaged SAR=6W/kg, 900MHz signal) in the rat brain. A statistically significant increase of GFAP stained surface area was observed 2 days after exposure in the frontal cortex and the caudate putamen. A smaller statistically significant increase was noted 3 days after exposure in the same areas and in the cerebellum cortex. Our results confirm the Mausset-Bonnefont et al. study [Mausset-Bonnefont, A.L., Hirbec, H., Bonnefont, X., Privat, A., Vignon, J., de Seze, R., 2004. Acute exposure to GSM 900MHz electromagnetic fields induces glial reactivity and biochemical modifications in the rat brain. Neurobiol. Dis. 17, 445-454], showing the existence of glial reactivity after a 15min GSM acute exposure at a brain averaged SAR of 6W/kg. We conclude to a temporary effect, probably due to a hypertrophy of glial cells, with a temporal and a spatial modulation of the effect. Whether this effect could be harmful remains to be studied.
PMID: 17624651 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Tank Driver Claims Electromagnetic Radiation Caused Brain Injury
A colleague who would not be named said the man who stole the tank had a "vendetta'' against phone towers. "He told us he'd worked for a government agency where he had to work around the towers and got radiation poisoning. So he planned out a map of where the towers were that he wanted to destroy.''
TANK VANDAL OUT FOR REVENGE
By Brenden Hills, Ellen Connolly
July 15, 2007 12:00am
A FORMER Telstra worker allegedly stole a tank and used it to demolish six mobile phone towers as he led police on a wild two-hour rampage through western Sydney yesterday.
More than 20 police chased the tank but were powerless to stop it, retreating to a safe distance as the huge vehicle cut a path of destruction through six suburbs.
They could only watch as the driver, hanging out of the top at times, allegedly rammed the tank through fences and into six mobile phone towers, telecommunication relay sheds and an electrical substation.
The damage caused major disruptions to mobile phone services in Sydney's west yesterday.
The divorced father allegedly stole the 1967 Trojan armoured personnel carrier (APC) from his former workplace, A One Lift Truck Service, at Minchinbury.
His former boss, Greg Morris, said the man had a beef with mobile phone towers.
"He used to work for Telstra and told us he was going through a medical claim for his head injury.
He said something about the radiation from the towers had caused it,'' Mr Morris said.
"He actually worked on the tank he stole, doing a lot of wiring and putting the engine in.''
The drama began at 2am when the ex-British Army tank - complete with steel tracks and replica gun turret - was taken from a holding shed and headed straight for its first target: an electricity substation at Michinbury.
The tank then allegedly rammed a police car as it drove from the Mount Druitt Hospital car park.
At its maximum speed of 52km/h per hour, it continued on through the suburbs of Mount Druitt, Dharruk, Emerton, Glendenning and Plumpton with 10 police vehicles in pursuit.
Several times police were forced to retreat when the driver allegedly swung the tank towards them.
He taunted police by leaning his head out the side window to wave at them.
The joyride ended at 4am when the vehicle stalled as the driver attempted to destroy a seventh mobile phone tower.
Police used capsicum sprayto subdue the man, who was dragged head first from the tank by officers.
Mr Morris said he bought the tank from the British military.
He restored the vehicle, which is valued at $1 million, and he hires it out for weddings and for motor shows.
A colleague who would not be named said the man who stole the tank had a "vendetta'' against phone towers.
"He told us he'd worked for a government agency where he had to work around the towers and got radiation poisoning.
"So he planned out a map of where the towers were that he wanted to destroy.''
Mr Morris said he was "devastated'' at the news.
"I can't believe it," he said.
Mr Morris described the man responsible for the carnage as a "quiet, well spoken'' man.
He left in December but Mr Morris saw him often.
"We were mates, he'd call in for a chat and a few beers.'
"The problem he's got is not with us. It's just that it's the tool he needed to do it.''
The chase attracted a lot of attention with drivers following the tank.
"It's not something you see in Mount Druitt every day,'' William Errington, 26, said.
Another local resident expressed similar disbelief after being woken up by her partner to chase the tank.
"Mick said we were going to follow a tank and I thought yeah a fuel tanker. Then the thing drove past us,'' said Oakhurst resident "Ally''.
Mount Druitt Chief Inspector Guy Habberly said the man had not been drinking and did not appear to be affected by drugs.
Yesterday John Robert Patterson, 45, of Dharruk, appeared in Parramatta Court charged with stealing the tank, dangerous driving and malicious damage.
He did not enter a plea or apply for bail and he was remanded to appear in Penrith Court tomorrow.
His defence lawyer Ivan Bertoia told the court that in a police interview his client "suggested he had the authority to behave in such a manner''.
Magistrate Terry Forbes said there was a strong case to be made for the case to be dealt with under the Mental Health Act.
TANK VANDAL OUT FOR REVENGE
By Brenden Hills, Ellen Connolly
July 15, 2007 12:00am
A FORMER Telstra worker allegedly stole a tank and used it to demolish six mobile phone towers as he led police on a wild two-hour rampage through western Sydney yesterday.
More than 20 police chased the tank but were powerless to stop it, retreating to a safe distance as the huge vehicle cut a path of destruction through six suburbs.
They could only watch as the driver, hanging out of the top at times, allegedly rammed the tank through fences and into six mobile phone towers, telecommunication relay sheds and an electrical substation.
The damage caused major disruptions to mobile phone services in Sydney's west yesterday.
The divorced father allegedly stole the 1967 Trojan armoured personnel carrier (APC) from his former workplace, A One Lift Truck Service, at Minchinbury.
His former boss, Greg Morris, said the man had a beef with mobile phone towers.
"He used to work for Telstra and told us he was going through a medical claim for his head injury.
He said something about the radiation from the towers had caused it,'' Mr Morris said.
"He actually worked on the tank he stole, doing a lot of wiring and putting the engine in.''
The drama began at 2am when the ex-British Army tank - complete with steel tracks and replica gun turret - was taken from a holding shed and headed straight for its first target: an electricity substation at Michinbury.
The tank then allegedly rammed a police car as it drove from the Mount Druitt Hospital car park.
At its maximum speed of 52km/h per hour, it continued on through the suburbs of Mount Druitt, Dharruk, Emerton, Glendenning and Plumpton with 10 police vehicles in pursuit.
Several times police were forced to retreat when the driver allegedly swung the tank towards them.
He taunted police by leaning his head out the side window to wave at them.
The joyride ended at 4am when the vehicle stalled as the driver attempted to destroy a seventh mobile phone tower.
Police used capsicum sprayto subdue the man, who was dragged head first from the tank by officers.
Mr Morris said he bought the tank from the British military.
He restored the vehicle, which is valued at $1 million, and he hires it out for weddings and for motor shows.
A colleague who would not be named said the man who stole the tank had a "vendetta'' against phone towers.
"He told us he'd worked for a government agency where he had to work around the towers and got radiation poisoning.
"So he planned out a map of where the towers were that he wanted to destroy.''
Mr Morris said he was "devastated'' at the news.
"I can't believe it," he said.
Mr Morris described the man responsible for the carnage as a "quiet, well spoken'' man.
He left in December but Mr Morris saw him often.
"We were mates, he'd call in for a chat and a few beers.'
"The problem he's got is not with us. It's just that it's the tool he needed to do it.''
The chase attracted a lot of attention with drivers following the tank.
"It's not something you see in Mount Druitt every day,'' William Errington, 26, said.
Another local resident expressed similar disbelief after being woken up by her partner to chase the tank.
"Mick said we were going to follow a tank and I thought yeah a fuel tanker. Then the thing drove past us,'' said Oakhurst resident "Ally''.
Mount Druitt Chief Inspector Guy Habberly said the man had not been drinking and did not appear to be affected by drugs.
Yesterday John Robert Patterson, 45, of Dharruk, appeared in Parramatta Court charged with stealing the tank, dangerous driving and malicious damage.
He did not enter a plea or apply for bail and he was remanded to appear in Penrith Court tomorrow.
His defence lawyer Ivan Bertoia told the court that in a police interview his client "suggested he had the authority to behave in such a manner''.
Magistrate Terry Forbes said there was a strong case to be made for the case to be dealt with under the Mental Health Act.
Letter from Guinea-Pigs-"R"-Us to BlueCross Representative
Dear Mr. Fitzpatrick:
(Copied below my comments, is item 4 of your critique of Michael Moore's "SICKO.")
You are correct that Moore did not address "lifestyle choices." While the choices you mention are undoubtedly causing significant increases in overall healthcare costs, there is another very important issue Moore also chose to ignore. I felt what I am about to write was important enough to appeal to Moore several times -- the last time when he was asking for opinions re our healthcare system.
I am referring to the issue of providing "prudent avoidance recommendations" regarding low level, "close," chronic, prolonged EMF/EMR (electromagnetic fields/electromagnetic radiation) pollution emanating from electric meters, gas meters, electric appliances such as electric clocks, small fans, monitors, noise machines, air purifiers, aquarium pumps and heaters, touchlamps, lamps with dimmer switches, TV's, computers, transformers for cordless phones and electronic games, security alarms, cell phone chargers -- literally any such items that might be in close proximity to persons' beds. Bad wires and even waterpipes running over or under beds may be producing high currents. There may be high frequencies on electrical wiring throughout homes.
Would you consider the placement of an infant's crib against a bedroom wall on which an electric meter is mounted to the outside wall adjacent to the crib to be "a lifestyle choice?"
You, like most of the public, are victims of "governmental neglect" that actually comes closer to outright "fraudulent concealment" thereby rendering citizens "participants in experimentation without informed consent!"
While the act of placing a newborn infant (or any child or person) in a bed that is adjacent to an electric meter may seem innocent and lacking in reasons for concern, I have two grandsons who were diagnosed with rare immune deficiencies. Their cribs/beds were unknowingly placed in harms way -- against the "powerwall" -- because our government, the electric utilities and also the various cancer societies were not announcing "prudent avoidance measures re low level EMF/EMR."
The immunologist asked whether children had died in our family. We were told the boys (cousins living in different cities) may develop Leukemia or Lymphoma or other cancers. We were also told their rare immune deficiency(ies) -- low IgG subclasses 1 and 3 would not be expected to occur in infants or toddlers -- that this was "an adult pattern" (the boys' cells were "aging") -- that there is/was no name for their problem -- only the description "hypogammaglobulinemia" which means "low immune......"
The immunologist said "this must be genetic." Blood tests were run and he then said, "this has to be environmental...." I asked about the two high voltage powerlines only 50 ft. from the front of our house (we had been providing daycare for the boys). The doctor responded, "well, we know that EMF's affect immune function in mice but we don't know how much of what happens to mice happens to people...."
This was all occuring during the $46 mil EMF RAPID Study. The boys' blood was sent to Dr. Fatih Uckun while he was still at the University of Minnesota. We were not told he was one of the scientists participating in the EMF RAPID Study. After Uckun left the University of Minnesota, the National Institute of Health helped him open the Wayne Hughes Institute. (See Uckun's comments re EMF's at: http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMFL-3-98.html )
To this day, the EMF RAPID Interagency Committee Report has never been presented to Congress. I have made several requests of politicians to testify before Congress. EMF's were designated as Class 2B carcinogens. While funds were slotted for "notifying the public," this has not occurred.
Tragically, a teacher, Michael Boyum, unknowingly had a small fan and electric clock on the headboard of his waterbed. Michael focused on "good health" -- he held a black belt in karate. Michael died at the age of 23 from Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Ironically, Dr. Fatih Uckun is the doctor who attempted "last ditch, extraordinary measures" to save Michael while he was a patient at the Parker-Hughes Cancer Center.
The costs of just the above three families as result of possibly "preventable health problems," were staggering and not only included considerable payments by insurers but also jeopardized family life (in many ways) for those affected, far into the future.
My husband, Bud, has now improved in three parts of his Executive Function. He is said not to have Alzheimers after all but continues to suffer "moderate" to "severe" memory loss and cognitive impairment. I moved Bud's electric clock radio off his nightstand and started him on a regime of nightly melatonin (as well as a number of other supplements). I also discontinued his statin -- Lipitor. Evidence is mounting that many drugs may be causing severe adverse reactions particularly when individuals are sleeping close to electrical or telephone equipment. Insurers have been and continue to cover a multitude of symptoms related to this type of adverse interaction/reaction.
Since you, Mr. Fitzpatrick, are involved in "communications," why don't you take the lead in regard to informing "Blue members," together with affiliated unions, large corporations, etc., that there is a critical need to move electric and telephone equipment away from persons' beds?
I will be glad to send you a copy of the 1993 "USA Today" afticle that I received from the American Cancer Society recommending electric items be moved away from close proximity to beds. Also, I can send you a copy of a booklet re EMF' that was prepared by utilities' communications' experts with the same recommendations. That booklet was distributed by Florida Power & Light and possibly also Sacramento Power & Light before printing was stopped in 2001.
The above-mentioned health problems in my family are only part of our family's costs of our not being informed re simple, basically cost-free "prudent avoidance measures...." The people need your help, Mr. Fredrickson, to make "important lifestyle choices."
I look forward to hearing good things in regard to your help toward improving our healthcare system!!!
Best wishes and take care - Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs "R" Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (7-10-07)
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity....... --Mahatma Gandhi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282050/
ARE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN GUINEA PIGS? Letter 7-22-04 by Joanne Mueller
* *
Mr. Fitzpatrick's comments (re Michael Moore's "SICKO"):
4. Perhaps most damaging of all, Moore completely fails to address the most significant driver of health care costs - our own lifestyle choices - and seeks to focus attention and efforts on the alluring 'quick-fix' of universal health care.........
Contrast this to the recent Health Care Symposium held in Harrisburg - where a panel of representatives from Government, Insurance, Hospitals, Business, Physicians, and even Lawyers agreed on one thing - that there was no quick fix and that Health and Wellness was the critical area of focus.
--------
SICKO: Fascinating inside look at Blue Cross's pondering what to do about Moore's expose
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/inside_look_at_bluecross_pondering.htm
(Copied below my comments, is item 4 of your critique of Michael Moore's "SICKO.")
You are correct that Moore did not address "lifestyle choices." While the choices you mention are undoubtedly causing significant increases in overall healthcare costs, there is another very important issue Moore also chose to ignore. I felt what I am about to write was important enough to appeal to Moore several times -- the last time when he was asking for opinions re our healthcare system.
I am referring to the issue of providing "prudent avoidance recommendations" regarding low level, "close," chronic, prolonged EMF/EMR (electromagnetic fields/electromagnetic radiation) pollution emanating from electric meters, gas meters, electric appliances such as electric clocks, small fans, monitors, noise machines, air purifiers, aquarium pumps and heaters, touchlamps, lamps with dimmer switches, TV's, computers, transformers for cordless phones and electronic games, security alarms, cell phone chargers -- literally any such items that might be in close proximity to persons' beds. Bad wires and even waterpipes running over or under beds may be producing high currents. There may be high frequencies on electrical wiring throughout homes.
Would you consider the placement of an infant's crib against a bedroom wall on which an electric meter is mounted to the outside wall adjacent to the crib to be "a lifestyle choice?"
You, like most of the public, are victims of "governmental neglect" that actually comes closer to outright "fraudulent concealment" thereby rendering citizens "participants in experimentation without informed consent!"
While the act of placing a newborn infant (or any child or person) in a bed that is adjacent to an electric meter may seem innocent and lacking in reasons for concern, I have two grandsons who were diagnosed with rare immune deficiencies. Their cribs/beds were unknowingly placed in harms way -- against the "powerwall" -- because our government, the electric utilities and also the various cancer societies were not announcing "prudent avoidance measures re low level EMF/EMR."
The immunologist asked whether children had died in our family. We were told the boys (cousins living in different cities) may develop Leukemia or Lymphoma or other cancers. We were also told their rare immune deficiency(ies) -- low IgG subclasses 1 and 3 would not be expected to occur in infants or toddlers -- that this was "an adult pattern" (the boys' cells were "aging") -- that there is/was no name for their problem -- only the description "hypogammaglobulinemia" which means "low immune......"
The immunologist said "this must be genetic." Blood tests were run and he then said, "this has to be environmental...." I asked about the two high voltage powerlines only 50 ft. from the front of our house (we had been providing daycare for the boys). The doctor responded, "well, we know that EMF's affect immune function in mice but we don't know how much of what happens to mice happens to people...."
This was all occuring during the $46 mil EMF RAPID Study. The boys' blood was sent to Dr. Fatih Uckun while he was still at the University of Minnesota. We were not told he was one of the scientists participating in the EMF RAPID Study. After Uckun left the University of Minnesota, the National Institute of Health helped him open the Wayne Hughes Institute. (See Uckun's comments re EMF's at: http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMFL-3-98.html )
To this day, the EMF RAPID Interagency Committee Report has never been presented to Congress. I have made several requests of politicians to testify before Congress. EMF's were designated as Class 2B carcinogens. While funds were slotted for "notifying the public," this has not occurred.
Tragically, a teacher, Michael Boyum, unknowingly had a small fan and electric clock on the headboard of his waterbed. Michael focused on "good health" -- he held a black belt in karate. Michael died at the age of 23 from Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Ironically, Dr. Fatih Uckun is the doctor who attempted "last ditch, extraordinary measures" to save Michael while he was a patient at the Parker-Hughes Cancer Center.
The costs of just the above three families as result of possibly "preventable health problems," were staggering and not only included considerable payments by insurers but also jeopardized family life (in many ways) for those affected, far into the future.
My husband, Bud, has now improved in three parts of his Executive Function. He is said not to have Alzheimers after all but continues to suffer "moderate" to "severe" memory loss and cognitive impairment. I moved Bud's electric clock radio off his nightstand and started him on a regime of nightly melatonin (as well as a number of other supplements). I also discontinued his statin -- Lipitor. Evidence is mounting that many drugs may be causing severe adverse reactions particularly when individuals are sleeping close to electrical or telephone equipment. Insurers have been and continue to cover a multitude of symptoms related to this type of adverse interaction/reaction.
Since you, Mr. Fitzpatrick, are involved in "communications," why don't you take the lead in regard to informing "Blue members," together with affiliated unions, large corporations, etc., that there is a critical need to move electric and telephone equipment away from persons' beds?
I will be glad to send you a copy of the 1993 "USA Today" afticle that I received from the American Cancer Society recommending electric items be moved away from close proximity to beds. Also, I can send you a copy of a booklet re EMF' that was prepared by utilities' communications' experts with the same recommendations. That booklet was distributed by Florida Power & Light and possibly also Sacramento Power & Light before printing was stopped in 2001.
The above-mentioned health problems in my family are only part of our family's costs of our not being informed re simple, basically cost-free "prudent avoidance measures...." The people need your help, Mr. Fredrickson, to make "important lifestyle choices."
I look forward to hearing good things in regard to your help toward improving our healthcare system!!!
Best wishes and take care - Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs "R" Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (7-10-07)
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity....... --Mahatma Gandhi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282050/
ARE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN GUINEA PIGS? Letter 7-22-04 by Joanne Mueller
* *
Mr. Fitzpatrick's comments (re Michael Moore's "SICKO"):
4. Perhaps most damaging of all, Moore completely fails to address the most significant driver of health care costs - our own lifestyle choices - and seeks to focus attention and efforts on the alluring 'quick-fix' of universal health care.........
Contrast this to the recent Health Care Symposium held in Harrisburg - where a panel of representatives from Government, Insurance, Hospitals, Business, Physicians, and even Lawyers agreed on one thing - that there was no quick fix and that Health and Wellness was the critical area of focus.
--------
SICKO: Fascinating inside look at Blue Cross's pondering what to do about Moore's expose
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/inside_look_at_bluecross_pondering.htm
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