J. Galvanovskis et al., Cytoplasmic Ca2+ oscillations in human leukemia T-cells are reduced by 50 Hz magnetic fields, BIOELECTROM, 20(5), 1999, pp. 269-276
The effect of 50 Hz magnetic fields on the cytosolic calcium oscillator in
Jurkat E6.1 cells was investigated for field strengths within the range fro
m 0 to 0.40 mT root mean square. The intracellular Ca2+ concentration data
were collected for single Jurkat cells that exhibited a sustained spiking f
or at least 1 h while repeatedly exposing them to an alternating magnetic f
ield in 10-min intervals interposed with nonexposure intervals of the same
length. The obtained data were analysed by computing spectral densities of
the Ca2+ oscillating patterns for each of these 10-min intervals. For every
single-cell experiment the spectra of all exposure as well as nonexposure
periods were then averaged separately. A comparison between the resulting a
verages showed that the total spectral power of the cytosolic Ca2+ oscillat
or was reduced by exposure of the cells to an alternating magnetic field an
d that the effect increased in an explicit dose-response manner. The same r
elationship was observed within the 0-10 mHz (10 x 10(-3) Hz) subinterval o
f the Ca2+ oscillation spectrum. For subintervals at higher frequencies, th
e change caused by the exposure to the magnetic field was not significant.
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