From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jan 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Ben Greenebaum Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Bioelectromagnetics Vol. 16, No. 6, 1995 Table of Contents (fwd) Date: 22 Jan 1996 05:31:25 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 100 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net BIOELECTROMAGNETICS VOLUME 16, No. 6, 1995 Table of Contents ============================================================================== NOTE: Please contact your library or the authors for reprints or further information about specific articles, NOT the Editor, Society or Publisher! For information about the journal, contact the Editor. For member subscription information, contact the Society at 7519 Ridge Road, Frederick, MD 21702-3519. For library or other non-member subscription information, contact the publisher, Wiley/Liss, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012, Attn: Subscription Dept., 9th Floor. Ben Greenebaum, Editor University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Box 2000, Kenosha, WI 53141-2000 414-595-2140; Fax 414-595-2056 Internet: bems@cs.uwp.edu ============================================================================== Bioelectromagnetics Journal of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the European Bioelectromagnetics Association and the Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine Volume 16, Number 6, 1995 (c) 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Articles 343 Biologic Effects of Prolonged Exposure to ELF Electromagnetic Fields in Rats: II. 50 Hz Magnetic Fields V. Margonato, P. Nicolini, R. Conti, L. Zecca, A. Veicsteinas, and P. Cerretelli 356 Spectral Analysis of Magnetic Fields From Domestic Appliances and Corresponding Induced Current Densities in an Anatomically Based Model of the Human Head Santi Tofani, Laura Anglesio, Piero Ossola, and Giovanni d'Amore 365 Residential Exposure to Magnetic Fields Generated by 110-400 kV Power Lines in Finland Jorma Voljus, Mikko Hongisto, Pia Verkasalo, Pekka Jarvinen, Kauko Heikkila, and Markku Koskenvuo 377 Sinusoidal 50 Hz 500 uT Magnetic Field Has No Acute Effect on Urinary 6-Sulphatoxymelatonin in Wistar Rats Jozsef Bakos, Noemi Nagy, Gyorgy Thuroczy, and Laszlo D. Szabo 381 Action of 50 Hz Magnetic Fields on Cyclic AMP and Intercellular Communication in Monolayers and Spheroids of Mammalian Cells Jutta Schimmelpfeng, Johannes-Christoph Stein, and Hermann Dertinger 387 Frequency-Dependent Interference by Magnetic Fields of Nerve Growth Factor-Induced Neurite Outgrowth in PC-12 Cells C.F. Blackman, S.G. Benane, and D.E. House Forum Paper 396 Designing EMF Experiments: What is Required to Characterize "Exposure"? Peter A. Valberg 402 Comment on "Designing Experiments: What is Required to Characterize 'Exposure'?" W.T. Kaune 405 Comment on "Designing Experiments: What is Required to Characterize 'Exposure'?" B. Wilson 406 Reply to Comments on "Designing Experiments: What is Required to Characterize 'Exposure'?" Peter A. Valberg Comments 407 Comment on "Absorbed Energy Distribution From Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation in a Mammalian Cell Model: Effect of Membrane-Bound Water," by Liu and Cleary Asher R. Sheppard and Quirino Balzano 408 Reply to "Comment on 'Absorbed Energy Distribution From Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation in a Mammalian Cell Model: Effect of Membrane-Bound Water,' by Liu and Cleary" Li-Ming Liu and Stephen F. Cleary 409 Erratum 410 Referees for Bioelectromagnetics, 1995 413 Author Index for Volume 16 415 Subject Index for Volume 16 (c) 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc. From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jan 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: tvaughan@athena.mit.edu (Timothy E Vaughan) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Gordon Research Conference [LONG] Date: 22 Jan 1996 05:27:02 -0800 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 299 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4e03b6$ea9@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Keywords: electrochemistry, electric fields, magnetic fields, EMF GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES: BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY Molecular and Cellular Biophysics of the Alteration of Biochemical Reactions and Transport by Electric and Magnetic Fields [Complete program, with list of confirmed speakers, appears below.] TIME AND PLACE July 21 - 26, 1996, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island COSTS Conference fee (registration, board and room) Double occupancy $540 per person Single occupancy $590 TRAVEL - Individual responsibility (in some cases partial funding may be available) FINANCIAL SUPPORT - Some funding may become available to partially support participation. This will depend on available funds and individual needs. APPLICATION PROCEDURE [1] Make formal application to Gordon Research Conference to one of Mail delivery: Conference Application Gordon Research Conferences University of Rhode Island P.O. Box 984 West Kingston, RI 02892-0984 Commercial delivery (FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc.) Conference Application Gordon Research Center 3071 Route 138, Kingston, RI 02881 USA [2] Send written copy by mail to James C. Weaver 20A-128, MIT Cambridge, MA 02139 or by email to grc_copy@geldrop.mit.edu Sending us a copy of your application is important, because in the past some applications apparently were misdirected, and then lost. If we do not know early that you applied, it may be too late to help by the time we learn of a problem. POSTERS - Participants are encouraged to present recent and ongoing work; a number of these will be selected for brief oral presentation and discussion (see PROGRAM) UPDATE - For the latest information send email to grc_up@geldrop.mit.edu PROGRAM Molecular and Cellular Biophysics of the Alteration of Biochemical Reactions and Transport by Electric and Magnetic Fields James C. Weaver, Chair; Paul Gailey, Vice Chair July 21 Sunday (arrival) 18:00 Dinner/reception July 22 Monday Morning BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF MAGNETIC FIELD RECEPTION I. Imre Gyuk (Discussion Leader) 08:45 Opening/Instructions 09:00 - 10:00 PETER VALBERG Magnetic particles in cells and tissues: characteristics and their interactions with magnetic fields 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 ATSUKO KOBAYASHI Biogenic magnetite and ferromagnetic contaminantion in biological materials 11:00 - 11:30 JOE KIRSCHVINK Ferromagnetism as a mechanism for electromagnetic field effects 11:30 - 12:30 KLAUS SCHULTEN Recent developments in the understanding of magnetically sensitive radical-pair reactions 12:30 Lunch 17:00 - 18:00 Social/Poster I 18:00 Dinner Monday Evening BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF MAGNETIC FIELD RECEPTION II. Mike Marron (Discussion Leader) 19:30 - 20:30 CHUCK GRISSOM Radical pair interactions as the possible basis for effects due to small fields 20:30 - 21:00 ROBERT ADAIR Limitations on radical pair interactions for weak magnetic fields 21:00 - 21:30 TIMOTHY VAUGHAN Alteration of rates via magnetic particles and radical pair processes July 23 Tuesday Morning BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF MAGNETIC FIELD RECEPTION III. Chuck Rafferty (Discussion Leader) 09:00 - 10:00 JAN WALLECZEK Electromagnetic field effects on cell calcium signaling and free radical mechanisms 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF ELECTRIC FIELD RECEPTION I. 10:30 - 11:30 AD KALMIJN The response of ampullae of Lorenzini to small dc and ac fields 11:30 - 12:30 KEN MCLEOD Response of bone-related cells to small electric fields in vitro and in vivo 12:30 Lunch 17:00 - 18:00 Social/Poster II 18:00 Dinner Tuesday Evening MOLECULAR AND BIOPHYSICAL EVENTS IN MEMBRANE PROTEINS I. Charles Bean (Discussion Leader) 19:30 - 20:30 FERNAN JARAMILLO The performance of biological sensory systems: experimental behavior compared to theoretical limits 20:30 - 21:30 DEAN ASTUMIAN Biophysical mechanisms: fundamental constraints on interactions involving voltage-deformed membrane proteins July 24 Wednesday Morning MOLECULAR AND BIOPHYSICAL EVENTS IN MEMBRANE PROTEINS II. Felix Hong (Discussion Leader) 09:00 - 10:00 RICHARD ALDRICH Molecular biology and biophysics of voltage-gated potassium channels 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 LOUIS DEFELICE Voltage-dependent neurotransmitter transporters 11:30 - 12:30 GARY YELLEN Molecular biophysics of voltage-gated potassium channels 12:30 Lunch 17:00 - 18:00 Social/Poster III 18:00 Dinner Wednesday Evening ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN TRANSPORT ACROSS BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS I. K. Kinosita (Discussion Leader) 19:30 - 20:30 PHILIP GREEN Transdermal drug delivery of peptides and small molecules by iontophoresis 20:30 - 21:30 JANET TAMADA Electrically driven transport across the skin for glucose sampling July 25 Thursday Morning ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN TRANSPORT ACROSS BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS II. Harry Bodde (Discussion Leader) 09:00 - 10:00 EBERHARD NEUMANN Lipid rearrangements in the electroporation-resealing cycle and biotechnological applications 10:00 -10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 LESLIE TUNG Electroporation of cardiac cell membranes with defibrillation-level electric fields 11:30 - 12:30 UWE PLIQUETT Quantitative characterization of ion and molecule transport across skin using fluorescence and electrochemical methods 12:30 Lunch 17:00 - 18:00 Social/Poster IV 18:00 Dinner Thursday Evening ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN TRANSPORT ACROSS BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS III. Veronique Preat (Discussion Leader) 18:00 - 18:15 Business meeting; conference evaluation forms 18:30 - 19:30 YURI CHIZMADZHEV Physical mechanism of ion and molecule transport across skin from "low" to "high" voltages 19:30 Conference dinner July 26 Friday Morning ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN TRANSPORT ACROSS BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS IV. Betty Sisken (Discussion Leader) 09:00 - 10:00 LLUIS M. MIR Electropermeabilization of living tissue for medical therapy based on local drug delivery to tumors 10:00 Coffee available, but no formal break 10:00 - 11:00 CLAUDE NICOLAU Electroporation and electroinsertion for medical therapy based on cell manipulation 11:00 - 12:00 RAPHAEL LEE Reversible and irreversible cell membrane electroporation in electrical injury 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Bus departs for Boston airport From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jan 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: jd_saffer@ccmail.pnl.gov Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: BEMS WWW Home Page Date: 22 Jan 1996 05:29:11 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 12 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <01I034J6FU5E8Y4WSI@pnl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The Bioelectromagnetics Society now has a WWW home page. The URL is http://w3.pnl.gov:2080/health/bems/ I welcome comments or suggestions regarding this page. Jeff Saffer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory jd_saffer@pnl.gov From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jan 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: afrey@uunet.uu.net (Allan Frey) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: brain cancer meta-analysis Date: 22 Jan 1996 13:55:02 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 18 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I understand that Leeka Kheifets... of EPRI conducted a Meta-analysis of a number of brain cancer epi studies. Has anyone read the report and have any thoughts on it? I understand that Kheifets' interprets the data in a toxicology context. A toxicology context assumption is contrary to theory and data from wet experiments. Thus, if the author in fact used this assumption, the conclusions would be rather questionable. Allan Allan H. Frey email afrey@uunet.uu.net 11049 Seven Hill Lane voice 301.299.5181 Potomac, MD 20854, USA From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jan 22 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: afrey@uunet.uu.net (Allan Frey) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: emf-bio charter reposting Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:07:41 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 191 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The emf-bio Newsgroup was set up by the International Society for Bioelectricity, a FASEB* Society (afrey@uunet.uu.net Allan H. 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Date: 25 Jan 1996 07:46:35 -0800 Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik Lines: 17 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4e88kr$ir3@net.bio.net> Reply-To: [Default:blank]@news.rwth-aachen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hi, I am looking for this NCRP-study on biological effects of EMF etc. An internal draft of this study has probably been published by "New Scientist", but I'm not sure, an I don't have access to this magazine. Could anyone post this to me? Thanks, Michael mh@ind.rwth-aachen.de From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sat Jan 27 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: ccardin@CAM.ORG (Cardinal,Claude) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Re: brain cancer meta-analysis Date: 28 Jan 1996 15:01:58 -0800 Organization: Communications Accessible Montreal Lines: 22 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net In article , afrey@uunet.uu.net (Allan Frey) wrote: > I understand that Leeka Kheifets... > of EPRI conducted a Meta-analysis of a number of brain cancer epi studies. > Has anyone read the report and have any thoughts on it? > > I understand that Kheifets' interprets the data in a toxicology context. A > toxicology context assumption is contrary to theory and data from wet > experiments. Thus, if the author in fact used this assumption, the > conclusions would be rather questionable. > > Allan > > Allan H. Frey email afrey@uunet.uu.net > 11049 Seven Hill Lane voice 301.299.5181 > Potomac, MD 20854, USA Allan, I would greatly apprciate if you could be more explicit on what is a Toxicology context assumption. Thanks for your collaboration From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jan 28 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: afrey@uunet.uu.net (Allan Frey) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: reply re tox assumption Date: 29 Jan 1996 08:03:10 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 59 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Claude Cardinal, in response to my Kheifets study posting asks: >Allan, I would greatly apprciate if you could be more explicit on what is >a Toxicology context assumption. Below is the answer, a segment from my book "On the nature of electromagnetic field interactions with biological systems" Allan Allan H. Frey email afrey@uunet.uu.net 11049 Seven Hill Lane voice 301.299.5181 Potomac, MD 20854, USA As a result of this area of research having its real start because of a concern about hazards in the 1940's, the tendency has been for people to use a toxicology model as their frame of reference in the selection, design and analyses of experiments. They have tended to set up experiments to look for a "dose-response relationship" between electromagnetic field exposure and a biological variable. But is a toxicology model appropriate as a guide for biological research with electromagnetic fields? It's a crucial question for, as Burke (1) and others have made quite clear our frame of reference determines what we look at and how we look. And as a consequence, this determines what we find . Theory and data show that this is the wrong model (2,3,4). Electromagnetic fields are not a foreign substance to living beings like lead or cyanide. With foreign substances, the greater the dose, the greater the effect Q a dose-response relationship. Rather, living beings are electrochemical systems that use very low frequency electromagnetic fields in everything from protein folding through cellular communication to nervous system function. To model how em fields affect living beings, one might compare them to the radio we use to listen to music. The em signal the radio picks up and transduces into the sound of music is almost unmeasureably weak. At the same time there are, in toto, strong em fields impinging on the radio. We don't notice the stronger em signals because they are not the appropriate frequency or modulation. Thus, they don't disturb the music we hear. However, if you impose on the radio an appropriately tuned em field or harmonic, even if it is very weak, it will interfere with the music. Similarly, if we impose a very weak em signal on a living being, it has the possibility of interfering with normal function if it is properly tuned. This is the model that much biological data and theory tell us to use, not a toxicology model. 1. Burke J. The day the Universe Changed. Boston: Little and Co, 1985. 2. Frey A H. Electromagnetic field interactions with biological systems. FASEB Journal 1993; 7:272-281 3. Frey A H. Evolution and results of biological research with low- intensity nonionizing radiation. In: A. A. Marino, ed. Modern Bioelectricity New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc 1988: 785-837. 4. Frey A H. Biological function as influenced by low power modulated RF energy. IEEE Trans on Microwave Theory and Techniques 1971; MTT- 19:153-164 From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jan 29 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: sastre@access.digex.net Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Re: reply re tox assumption Date: 30 Jan 1996 08:07:08 -0800 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Lines: 37 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ekdj8$i49@news3.digex.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net >In a previous posting, Allan Frey questioned the recent >brain cancer meta-analysis by Kheifets et al. Claude Cardinal offered a reply, and Frey wanted >clarification about the " toxicology context" of the meta-analysis. As a researcher in bioelectromagnetics who has also worked as a professional pharmacologist, maybe I can add some perspective to this question. Pharmacological and toxicological experiments explore, among other things, what the dose-response relationship may be between an exposure and a biological response. In searching for such a dose-response, the experiments are equally informative whether they find a dose-response or not find such a relationship. Similarly, they are informative if they do find one that is monotonically increasing or if they find a relationship that has some other shape. There are many examples of drug dose-response curves (generally called biphasic) that look like an inverted "U", what someone in bioelectromagnetics may call a "window." No toxicologist worth his or her salt would design an experiment that would be informative only if there existed a monotonic dose-response relationship. Simiarly, a bioelectromagnetics experiment or study conducted in such a fashion would not very very informative either. In bioelectromagnetics we have a number of theoretical mechanisms as candidates for reported magnetic field-biological interactions. ALL of the candidate mechanisms predict (to a varying level of detail) how the biological response may vary as a function of magnetic field intensity or frequency, whether they are resonance mechanisms (e.g., Liboff; Blanchard-Blackman, Lednev), free-radicals (e.g. Walleczec), intermittency (e.g. Litovitz) or others. None of the mechanisms have been proven for any reported effect, and all need, before they can be accepted or rejected, to match their predictions (including dose-response) to the experimental data that may be collected. Thus, doing experiments or other studies that explore dose-response in bioelectromagnetics is indispensable both theoretically as well as experimentally. If only from these considerations, Kheifetz and her colleagues are on very solid ground in their analysis; while their approach may not be the only possible approach, it is certainly one backed by considerable background, both within and outside the general area of bioelectromagnetics. Antonio Sastre, Ph.D. A.S. Consulting & Research and Adjunct Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Cornell Medical College From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Tue Jan 30 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Janie P. Blanchard" Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: grants Date: 30 Jan 1996 17:49:39 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 65 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uunet.uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <91960130173919/0005382259D40X4@MCIMAIL.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The Peer Review Application Process at NIH Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Tennis Club February 10, 1996 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Sponsored by The International Society for Optical Engineering 8:30 am Introduction to the NIH Peer Review Process - Lee Rosen, Ph.D. Scientific Review Administrator, Diagnostic Imaging Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health. 9:15 am Developing and Presenting a Research Plan - Harrison Barrett, Ph.D., Regents Professor, Radiological Research Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 10:00 am Break 10:15 am Preparing An Amended Application - Robert Kruger, Ph.D., Professor and Chief of Basic Science, Radiology Department, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 11:00 am Preparing A Budget - Michael Insana, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 11:30 am Discussion Noon Lunch 1:30 pm Mock Study Section 3:00 pm Break 3:15 pm New Funding Opportunities in Imaging Science and Technologies - Faina Shtern, M.D., Chief, Diagnostic Imaging Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 4:00 pm Possible Future Developments in Peer Review and Closing Remarks - Lee Rosen, Ph.D. Cost: $65 for members of SPIE, $75 for nonmembers Registration: To register in advance, please contact SPIE for a registration form, call our offices directly, or use the registration form available on the World Wide Web. 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