Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields has no effect on growth rate or clonogenic potential of multipotential haemopoietic progenitor cells
Authors not listed · 1996
The study found no effect of extremely low frequency magnetic fields on growth rate or clonogenic potential of multipotential haemopoietic progenitor cells.
Plain English Summary
Researchers investigated interactions of weak ELFMFs with primitive haemopoietic cells in vitro using the multipotential progenitor cell line FDCP-mix(A4). They determined proliferative activity and clonogenic potential under optimal and sub-optimal growth conditions with exposures to ambient laboratory ELFMFs or three other ELFMF regimes including nulled fields, Ca2+-ion cyclotron resonance at 50 Hz, and vertical 50 Hz fields of 6 muT(RMS). Using exposures of 1, 4, 7 and 21 days, they found no significant alteration of growth rate, cell-cycle state or clonogenic efficiency.
Why This Matters
Recent reports had suggested ELFMFs from high voltage power lines might act as weak tumour promoters by increasing acute myeloid leukaemia risk in children. The study's title states that exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields has no effect on growth rate or clonogenic potential of multipotential haemopoietic progenitor cells.
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Show BibTeX
@article{exposure_to_extremely_low_frequency_magnetic_fields_has_no_effect_on_growth_rate_or_clonogenic_potential_of_multipotential_haemopoietic_progenitor_cells_ce1593,
author = {Unknown},
title = {Exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields has no effect on growth rate or clonogenic potential of multipotential haemopoietic progenitor cells},
year = {1996},
doi = {10.3109/08977199609003222},
}