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A Preliminary Study to Assess Possible Chromosomal Damage Among
Users of Digital Mobile Phones - Cell Phones & Blood Brain Barrier -
Important forthcoming paper on EMF and Schizophrenia - Pseudo iron
deficiency (22/9/03) |
A Preliminary Study to Assess Possible Chromosomal Damage Among Users of
Digital Mobile Phones
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P. K. Gadhia *Corresponding
Tejal Shah 1
Amit Mistry 1
Meonis Pithawala 1
Dipesh Tamakuwala 1
1 Department of Biosciences
South Gujarat University
Surat, 395 007, India
Abstract
In a preliminary study to examine possible lymphocyte chromosomal
damage, we have tested two cytogenetic endpoints, namely, chromosomal
aberrations (CA) and sister chromatid exchange frequencies (SCE), in 24
mobile phone users (12 nonsmoker-nonalcoholic subjects and 12
smoker-alcoholics), who used digital mobile phones for at least 2 years,
employing Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying modulations with uplink
frequencies at 935-960 MHz. and downlinks at 890-915 MHz.
For comparison, the control study group included another 24 individuals,
matched according to their age, sex, drinking and smoking habits, as
well as similar health status, working habits, and professional careers;
but did not use mobile phones.
Blood samples of 12 mobile users (6 smoker-alcoholic and 6
nonsmoker-nonalcoholic) and 12 controls (identical to mobile users in
every respect) were further treated with a known mutagen Mitomycin-C
(MMC) to find out comutagenic/synergistic effect. A complete blood
picture for each individual was assessed with an automatic particle cell
counter.
There was a significant increase (P < 0.05) in dicentric chromosomes
among mobile users who were smoker-alcoholic as compared to
nonsmoker-nonalcoholic; the same held true for controls of both types.
After MMC treatment, there was a significant increase in dicentrics
(P<
0.05) and ring chromosomes (P < 0.001) in both smoker-alcoholic and
nonsmoker-nonalcoholic mobile users when compared with the controls.
Although SCEs showed a significant increase among mobile users, no
change in cell cycle progression was noted. The hematological picture
showed only minor variations between mobile users and controls.
Published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 2
Print ISSN: 1536-8378
Online ISSN: 1536-8386
Journal Article | Print Published: 10/01/2003 | Online Published:
09/08/2003
Pages: 149 - 159 | PDF File Size: 351 KB
DOI: 10.1081/JBC-120024624
Source:
http://www.dekker.com/servlet/product/DOI/101081JBC120024624#abstract
Informant : Reinhard Rueckemann
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Cell Phones & Blood Brain Barrier
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Over 100 years ago, scientists injected blue dye into the blood of
animals. All the tissues of the body turned blue, except for the brain
and spinal cord. Cells of the capillaries fit together tightly in the
brain keeping many substances out.
Nature designed the Blood-Brain Barrier to protect the sensitive cells
of the brain. It keeps out many toxic elements, chemicals and drugs,
etc., that could disrupt brain function.
A 2-year study led by D. Leszcynski of Finland's Radiation & Nuclear
Safety Authority indicates that Cell and Mobile Phones Cause Human Cell
Changes - can negatively affect the Blood-Brain Barrier.
Cell phone radiation causes increased activity in the proteins of human
cells grown in a lab. Leszcynski speculates that, if such activity
causes blood vessel cells to shrink, it could create gaps between the
cells, making the barrier around the brain easier to penetrate.
This has been referred to as "Leaky Blood-Brain Barrier."
What of dental patients who get mercury fillings, and then use a cell
phone!
There's more: Radiation-induced changes in the cells could also
interfere with the normal death process of apoptosis. If cells that are
"marked" to die do not, tumors can form.
Beyond the basic nervous system, this problem has to affect every organ
and system of the body. -from Reuters - http://www.drpressman.com/
W.H.O. Chief Shuns Cell Phones OSLO (Reuters) - World Health Org. chief
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland warned parents Monday against letting their
children spend too much time on mobile telephones and said their
electromagnetic waves give her a headache. Brundtland, the WHO
director-general, does not own a mobile phone and for-bids anyone to use
one in her Geneva office, saying this is to protect herself from the
electromagnetic waves.
"If you enter my office, you are invited by me. No one who is invited
would like to give me headaches," Brundtland said at a news conference
in Oslo, Norway, where she attended an international conference on
cancer. Electromagnetic radiation exposure in-cites our stress reaction,
and this leads to all sorts of mischief in our bodies. Hormones go on
'alert,' and go off-balance - we grind and clench more - our saliva
flows more slowly. Over a period of time our immune response suffers.
And all these have obvious dental implications.
Take your cue from Dr. Brundtland and keep at least 6 to 8 feet away
from anyone on a cell phone.
Informant: Jerry Mittelman
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Important forthcoming paper on EMF and Schizophrenia
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Hi Klaus:
Thanks for the easier link access
http://tinyurl.com/9e3op to
John McMurtrey's
August 2003 paper entitled "Remote Behavioral Influence Technology
Evidence."
I note with great interest in his last endnote entry (e/n 139) that John
intends to publish online in the near future a very significant paper on
"Microwave Bioeffects Congruence with Schizophrenia." Such published
research is of urgent importance for health specialists and
especially
psychiatrists and related professionals who treat inappropriately
patients presenting with MW/RF induced bioeffects.
My question to John is: what date does he project for online
publication of this paper?
Best, Imelda, Cork, Ireland
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Comments from Betty Venables re: pseudo iron
deficiency
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Dear Don,
Your email message re the pseudo-iron deficiency connection with
CFS
and the possibility of using it as marker for establishing the
Electro
Hypersensitivity (EHS) condition (Omega: see
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega285.htm)
. This makes good sense.
I do believe though, that iron may not be the only mineral
which
could be seen as a marker, as a number of minerals in
particular
magnesium, affect energy levels and may also be involved with CFS.
Following is a chapter from my book review, featuring
EHS, which
describes the importance of mineral balance and the need to
avoid
disruption to that balance.
MINERAL DEFICIENCY AND EMR CONNECTION
To begin with, artificial fertilizers used in intensive
farming, have
been found to deplete the soil of the essential macronutrients
calcium,
phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium and the and
micronutrients also known as trace minerals, of iron, zinc,
selenium,
manganese, copper, iodine, molybdenum, cobalt, chromium, fluorine,
silicon, vanadium, nickel, tin.
Food that is depleted of these trace elements, cannot be expected
to
nourish the living organism. Mineral depletion
is a burden the
individual organism may withstand for a time, the individual's unique
physiology determining whether these circumstances will lead to
disease.
Minerals are an essential requirement for optimum health and play
a
vital role in the body's regulation of it's water balance. They are
often part of essential compounds which are inactive without their
presence and are the catalyst for innumerable chemical reactions.
The need for magnesium alone is documented in more than 200
published
clinical studies. Professional interest in magnesium as a
treatment for
a number of conditions has increased recently in the USA.
In view of the fact that minerals interact in a highly complex
manner
within the body's metabolism a normal balance of these elements
should
be maintained while factors that may disrupt this balance
should be
avoided. EMR exposure is one such factor.
Minerals are essential in maintaining the integrity of human health.
ELECTROMAGENTIC RADIATION (EMR) AND MINERALS
Application of specific frequencies of EMR have been used to treat
depression. The mineral Magnesium (Mg) has been used to
treat the
depressive/hyperactive illness known as bipolar disorder. Both
treatments have met with success. This clearly demonstrates the
connection between EMR and Mg and depression.
EMR exposure and Mg deficiency have both been linked with initiating
depression. (-) (-) Schachter
Principally, we are highlighting the role of :
. Mg deficiency in mood alteration
. EMR exposure in mood alteration
and the combined, effects of these two
biologically active agents on
human health.
We are attempting also to highlight the disruption caused by EMR
exposure to the assimilation of essential minerals in ionic form.
We may then reach the conclusion that via this path:
. EMR exposure challenges the integrity of human health
. avoidance of unnecessary EMR will protect the integrity
of human
health.
The following excerpts from studies and reports are all
pertinent to
the importance of mineral balance in relation to human
health.
MINERAL DEFICIENCY AND EMR
"The medical monitoring of Coutiches, a town in northern France revealed
an important finding, the lack of certain elements such as iron
and
copper in the blood composition, something that has been observed in
farm animals living near high tension wires. There is every indication
at this stage that electromagnetic fields due to the transmission and
distribution of electricity disturb the iron and
copper metabolism."
( -)
Worthy of note here, is an Australian case on record
of a 14 year
old girl, diagnosed with anemia who slept in
a first floor
bedroom, where 12 mGauss was recorded on her pillow.
The bed was 5
metres distance from, and level with the (low voltage) 415 Volt power
lines which bordered the home corner block. This formed a right
angle,
a situation known to cause EMR to accrue within that right angle at a
magnitude four (4) times greater than that measured outside the angle.
To digress for a moment, The entire family of two parents and
three
young adults were plagued with headaches and a number of adverse
health
conditions. This young girl's condition did not respond to
treatment
until she was sent to live away from this
location. Eventually the
power line configuration was changed by the power authority under
their
policy of prudent avoidance, to eliminate the right angle. (Name and
address supplied.) The family's health improved.
Minerals and Cell Function Interference
There are scientific studies that reveal EMR induced
alteration in
normal calcium ion transference at cellular level. Studies
of chick
brain tissue revealed, depending on the orientation and
intensity of
the local background Direct Current (DC) magnetic field and the applied
electromagnetic field, there occurred either an influx or
efflux of
calcium ions from the tissue. ( )
Janet Stone (USA) says "I have an ion channel defect (chloride and
possibly sodium channel) which seems to make me more susceptible to
EMFs...almost everyone I know who has reacted has a similar genetic or
acquired disorder. Apparently the gating for the channel gets stuck and
the cells can't repolarize properly." Janet's a paper is available on
request from EMS/SNI
Obviously, interaction of EMR of both natural and
artificial origin
has the potential to influence the calcium absorption
process. It has
been stated further that calcium is not the only mineral which
can be
affected under these conditions which is termed ion cyclotron
resonance
(CR) .
ELF interaction is NOT limited to calcium.
Experimental data have
been obtained to date for Li+ , 40 Ca2+ , 45Ca2+ , K+
, and Mg2 . "
( Lithium, calcium. potassium and magnesium)
From Dr Robert Becker's says "Cyclotron Resonance is a mechanism of
action that enables very low strength electromagnetic fields, acting in
concert with the earth's geomagnetic field, to produce major biological
effects by concentrating the energy in the applied field upon specific
particles, such as the biologically important ions of sodium, calcium,
potassium and lithium. "
Changes in concentration of copper, manganese, cobalt and iron
observed
in non-fertilized female rats led researchers to conclude that
alternating magnetic fields may have an influence on
biological
substances which contain metals and on the metabolism of such
substances as well. (Ref unknown)( -) Duda
As calcium is a mineral required for vital bodily
functions it may be
deduced that any disruption to the normal
supply of this mineral
alone could compromise the optimum functioning of any
affected
organism.
Magnesium is also known to be necessary for vital bodily functions.
Deficiency of magnesium produces symptoms that mirror those
reported by
people with electro hypersensitivity to EMR exposure. It is
obvious
that Mg plays a vital role in EHS.
Dr Michael Schachter M.D., describes the effects that Mg deficiency has
on the peripheral and central nervous system, producing an excitability
of the nervous systems and symptoms that are often
described by EHS
patients as well as those experiencing tetany episodes which have been
prompted by EMR exposure. (-) This highlights the EMR exposure - Mg
deficiency - EHS development link.
As the pseudo-iron deficiency in affected people, living
under the
influence of high voltage power line exposure in Coutiches, has
been
established we need to now look at what other or
'pseudo/authentic
deficiencies ' might result from high or low voltage EMR
exposures.
The Coutiches experience has focused the attention on High Voltage Power
lines EMR exposure and a clinically recognizable pseudo-iron
deficiency. It has also drawn attention to the importance
of mineral
balance and the need to avoid disrupting elements, such as EMR,
that
can upset that balance -
We therefore need to look further than the pseudo- ion deficiency in
isolation as marker for EHS. We need to look at the
range of mineral
pseudo/authentic deficiencies that could be occurring under
the
combination of natural and artificial EMR exposure conditions. In
this
way we could become closer to the truth that EMR from high and low
voltage and other power sources is disrupting the metabolism of
minerals which induces biological effects that are precursors to human
disorders and diseases. End
Basic information on mineral deficiencies and health note that a
balanced distribution of minerals is required for optimum
health. Once
this balance is upset the system is in a state of Where an excess
of
one mineral can cause a depletion of another
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Patriot Act target of ACLU challenge The
Oregonian
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"The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal judge in
Portland to rule unconstitutional part of the USA Patriot Act, the
controversial law passed after the Sept. 11 attacks that broadened the
government's domestic spying powers. ... Specifically, the ACLU,
joined
by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, says the
Justice Department's use of a secret court to get authority for
electronic eavesdropping violates constitutional protections of privacy
and free speech and against unreasonable searches and seizures."
http://tinyurl.com/o6kq
Opponents urge recalling the Patriot Act
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0903/21dissent.html
The ever-expanding Patriot Act
http://tinyurl.com/o6s3
2004 -- Our last chance to save Social
Security?
http://www.cse.org/informed/issues_template.php/1564.htm
Losing touch with reality
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3524590
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp |
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