CLARIFICATION AND APPLICATION OF AN ION PARAMETRIC RESONANCE MODEL FOR MAGNETIC-FIELD INTERACTIONS WITH BIOLOGICAL-SYSTEMS

Theoretical models proposed to date have been unable to clearly predic t biological results from exposure to low-intensity electric and magne tic fields (EMF). Recently a predictive ionic resonance model was prop osed by Lednev, based on an earlier atomic spectroscopy theory describ ed by Podgoretskii and Podgoretskii and Khrustalev. The ion parametric resonance (IPR) model developed in this paper corrects mathematical e rrors in the earlier Lednev model and extends that model to give expli cit predictions of biological responses to parallel AC and DC magnetic fields caused by field-induced changes in combinations of ions within the biological system. Distinct response forms predicted by the IPR m odel depend explicitly on the experimentally controlled variables: mag netic flux densities of the AC and DC magnetic fields (B(a)c and B-dc, respectively); AC frequency (f(ac)); and, implicitly, charge to mass ratio of target ions. After clarifying the IPR model and extending it to combinations of different resonant ions, this paper proposes a basi c set of experiments to test the IPR model directly which do not rely on the choice of a particular specimen or endpoint. while the fundamen tal bases of the model are supported by a variety of other studies, th e IPR model is necessarily heuristic when applied to biological system s, because it is based on the premise that the magnitude and form of m agnetic field interactions with unhydrated resonant ions in critical b iological structures alter ion-associated biological activities that m ay in turn be correlated with observable effects in living systems. (C ) 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.