Dear Eilleen,

Please find in the attached file the copy of a paper published in Life Sciences that may be of your interest.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/paper_amancio.pdf

Also, you can find it in the PUB MED, or in the web site:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

Best regards,
A.A. de Salles.


Informant: Eileen O'Connor

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Ferreira AR, Knakievicz T, de Bittencourt Pasquali MA, Gelain DP, Dal-Pizzol F, Fernandez CE, de Almeida de Salles AA, Ferreira HB, Moreira JC.

Centro de Estudos em Estresse Oxidativo, Departamento de Bioquimica, ICBS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Mobile telephones and their base stations are an important ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field (UHF-EMF) source and their utilization is increasing all over the world. Epidemiological studies suggested that low energy UHF-EMF emitted from a cellular telephone may cause biological effects, such as DNA damage and changes on oxidative metabolism. An in vivo mammalian cytogenetic test, the micronucleus (MN) assay, was used to investigate the occurrence of chromosomal damage in erythrocytes from rat offspring exposed to a non-thermal UHF-EMF from a cellular phone during their embryogenesis; the irradiated group showed a significant increase in MN occurrence. In order to investigate if UHF-EMF could also alter oxidative parameters in the peripheral blood and in the liver - an important hematopoietic tissue in rat embryos and newborns - we also measured the activity of antioxidant enzymes, quantified total sulfhydryl content, protein carbonyl groups, thiobarbituric acid-reactive species and total non-enzymatic antioxidant defense. No significant differences were found in any oxidative parameter of offspring blood and liver. The average number of pups in each litter has also not been significantly altered. Our results suggest that, under our experimental conditions, UHF-EMF is able to induce a genotoxic response in hematopoietic tissue during the embryogenesis through an unknown mechanism.

PMID: 16978664 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16978664&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/emf_research.htm

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ATTN: TRUSTEES FOR CHILDREN WITH LEUKAEMIA -

As you know, I have appealed to you for help in regard to funding Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson in the past. Eileen O'Connor has done a great job of explaining the need to continue funding Dr. Johansson and her email is included (addressed to the Karolinska).

While you have excellent EMF scientists in the Uk, including Dr. Denis Henshaw (now also a Trustee), there are many benefits in collaborating with the prestigous Karolinska Institute by joining efforts to support the work of such a brilliant, honest, passionate worker for the rights of persons everywhere to live in harmony with their environment. As you know, there are many aspects of the EMF/EMR issue that need urgent attention -- not the least of which is the need to begin making announcements re "common sense prudent avoidance!!!

Dr. Johansson has bravely withstood criticism from many fronts and has had his very livelihood threatened many times. He is "a voice for the people" -- we can't afford for him to be silenced!!!

I have appealed to you for help before and have pointed out how and why I believe support of Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson by your Charity will "lead the way" toward preventing Leukaemia in children -- actually, an effort that will provide a wonderful opportunity for your Charity to not only raise awareness re cost-free EMF mitigation but also has the potential of being a "major fundraiser" for Children With Leukaemia!!!

Best wishes to all for good health and take care!!! Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (9-23-06)

"The time is always right to do what is right."

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.



Fwd: FUNDING...Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson...EMF/EMR Leading Expert...2006
From: JCMPelican(at)aol.com
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:47:08 EDT

Jill: Eileen has done an excellent job of conveying the urgency of need to fund Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson.

I am in the process of preparing a major appeal to the Bill Gates Foundation. Will distribute soon...... Take care - Joanne


Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (9-23-06)


"If circumstances hold you back, ALWAYS find another way to achieve your goals...." DaVinci

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ACNEM letter in support of Olle Johansson’s continuing research

Last week I heard that Olle Johansson at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has been denied any further funding to continue with his EMF research. Unfortunately this is all too frequently happening to independent researchers who dare report on finding non-thermal bio-effects. The cell phone industry is trying to convince governments and organisations with the bull-shit line that there is no need to do this type of research anymore as non-thermal effects do not exist and funding is better spent elsewhere.

Olle has written several papers in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and you can access thes papers on http://www.acnem.org

There is now an urgent need for people and organisations to write to the Karolinska Institute (details below) in support of reinstating further funding in order for Johansson to continue his important research.

Below is the content of a letter sent to Professor Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, air-mailed today by Daan Spijer, CEO of ACNEM. I urge others to do similar.

Don Maisch


25th September 2006

Professor Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, Karolinska Institute Rektorsambetet
171 77 Stockholm
SWEDEN


Dear Professor,

It is with sadness that I learned recently that funding for research by Dr. Ölle Johansson into EMFs has been stopped. I understand that this is due to a lack of funds.

Dr Johansson has written a number of seminal articles for this College‚s Journal (see http://www.acnem.org/journal ). These articles have had an impact in Australia on both government and public approaches to the proliferation of EMFs and the seemingly inexorable increase in the breadth and depth of the electromagnetic soup we live in.

Sweden is regarded in Australia as being in the forefront of research into and regulation of environmental pollution. It would set knowledge and understanding in this area back, if eminent researchers such as Dr Johansson were not able to continue their important work.

I ask that all possible efforts be made to find the funding necessary for Dr Johansson to continue his work.

Sincerely and with thanks,

Daan Spijer LLB
CEO ACNEM - Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine
Mail: PO Box 324,
Black Rock, Vic 3193,
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9589 6088
Fax: +61 3 9589 5158
Email: daan(at)acnem.org
Web: http://www.acnem.org

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=558



Johansson O.

Cancer Trends During the 20th Century (with Hallberg Ö.) JACNEM V.21 No.1 April 2002:3-8
http://www.acnem.org/journal/21-1_april_2002/cancer_trends.htm

a Case of Extreme and General Cutaneous Light Sensitivity in Combinaiton with so-called 'Screen Dermatitis' and 'Electro-sensitivity' - a Successful Rehabilitation after Vitamin A Treatment - a case report(with Liu P-Y, Enhamre A & Wetterberg L.) JACNEM Vol.18 No.1 April 1999:13-16
http://www.acnem.org/journal/18-1_april_1999/screen_dermatitis.htm

Commentary: Mobile Phones - Will the Golden Goose Become the Mad Cow? (with Leif Södergren) JACNEM Vol.20 No.2 August 2001:29-30
http://www.acnem.org/journal/20-2_august_2001/commentary-mobile_phones.htm

Long-Term Sickness and Mobile Phone Use. (with Hallberg Ö) JACNEM Vol. 23 No. 2 September 2003:7-10
http://www.acnem.org/journal/23-2_september_2004/mobile_phones-hallberg.htm



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Olle+Johansson

15:22 -- Tages-Anzeiger Online

Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über Auswirkungen von Mobilfunk-Strahlung, die allein von der Industrie finanziert sind, berichten vergleichsweise selten über Effekte auf den menschlichen Körper. Dies fanden Berner Forscher heraus.

Mehr unter...
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/vermischtes/668303.html

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Wissenschaftlicher Zweifel an der Mobilfunk-Forschung
http://www.symlink.ch/article.pl?sid=06/09/22/1342243

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Mobilfunk-Studien: Auftraggeber bestimmen die Resultate
http://www.kleinreport.ch/meld.phtml?id=36733

Wer bezahlt, bestimmt die Studienresultate
http://www.gigaherz.ch/1079

From Martin Weatherall:

PRESS RELEASE September 20, 2006

For More Information Contact: Deb Carney, Attorney for CARE (Canyon Area residents for the Environment) deb(at)carneylaw.net
303-526-0214 or Laura Elliott, CARE Press Relations lauraelliott1(at)earthlink.net
303-526-2842

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS FROM INCREASED BROADCAST RADIATION EXPOSURE CONFIRMED FOR LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN RESIDENTS

Summary of National Institute of Health (NIH)/Colorado State University (CSU) Study of Lookout Mountain Residents

Lookout Mountain Residents with increased amounts of broadcast radiation (RF) have statistically significant elevations of certain types of white blood cells that are immune system markers.

The National Institute of Environmental Health commissioned Colorado State University to examine the effects of long-term exposure to radiation on hundreds of residents of Lookout Mountain. This study follows the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment’s July 2004 findings that statistically significant elevated numbers of brain tumors exist in residents near the broadcast antennae towers atop Lookout Mountain.

Professor Jim Burch, M.S., Ph.D., one of the authors of the CSU study observes:

“This study does show biological changes in the Lookout Mountain residents’ immune system markers that are associated with RF. Various immune markers increase with increasing RF exposure. For example, the T cells and lymphocytes go up in a statistically significant manner with increases in RF. The reason for this reaction within the human body for this biological response in unclear. People with certain types of leukemia have high immune markers. The fact that there are RF limits imposed by the federal government shows that broadcast radiation is harmful beyond certain amounts. Everyone knows too much is hazardous. The issue is whether there are effects below the broadcast radiation levels that heat the body. In other words, are there also nonthermal effects? The CSU study was never designed to determine the risk of RF (radiofrequency radiation); it was designed to see if the RF caused changes in the biomarkers. No one study can prove or disprove the safety of broadcast radiation. This study shows there are some biological effects. ”

Currently, there are no FCC Standards designed for long-term radiation exposure. The present FCC radiation limits are designed to protect only against short-term adverse health effects caused by heating of the body, from sources such as microwaves. Federal health and safety agencies have not yet developed policies concerning possible risk from long-term, nonthermal exposures, such as experienced in the neighborhoods within five miles of the broadcast antennae towers This is the first official study to measure radiation amounts on Golden’s Lookout Mountain, Colorado State University’s Department of Environmental Health confirms that residents closest to the broadcast antennae towers experience high radiation levels: one in four Lookout Mountain residents experience radiation levels far in excess of the levels that the median population experiences. More specifically, those residents living in the same elevation levels as the towers have the highest radiation levels. As part of the CSU study, hundreds of residents were selected randomly and agreed to have their bodily functions measured and monitored for three consecutive days. This included wearing a ‘watch’ and fanny-pack devices that measured sleep patterns, cardiovascular and other vital signs. Participants gave blood samples and collected all urine output during that time period.

“Radio Frequency Non-Ionizing Radiation in a Community Exposed to Radio and Television Broadcasting”, addresses the amount of radiation in the area. That paper is published in the Environmental Health Perspectives, a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences journal. The biological findings report has not yet been published but was obtained by a company pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Institute of Health and referred to by a representative of the Lake Cedar Group Broadcasters at a public meeting last Thursday.

For a complete copy of published CSU’s paper, see http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/admin/newest.html, papers dated 9/17-9/24. For the biological data and additional background, please visit the Canyon Area Residents for the Environment website: http://www.c-a-r-e.org


Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=555

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Human Responses to Residential RF Exposure

Just received notice of the publication of an important new study by Dr. Jim Burch, formerly with Colorado Sate University, on Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado showing significant elevations of certain types of while blood cells that are immune system markers associated with exposure to radiofrequency radiation from TV broadcast towers located close to several thousand residences there.

The press release and full report are attached:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/human_responses_to_residential_rf_exposure.doc
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/press_release_9_06_final.doc

Kind regards,

Elizabeth Kelley
ICEMS - Managing Secretariat International Commission For Electromagnetic Safety Montepulciano, Italy
Email: info(at)icems.eu Web: www.icems.eu

If you want to talk to Dr. Burch, you can reach him as follows:

Jim Burch, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
2221 Devine St, Suite 222
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208
Phone: 803 734-4459
Fax: 803 734-5505
E-mail: burch(at)gwm.sc.edu
The University of South Carolina


Informant: Eileen O'Connor

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There is no article by Burch a.o. in 9/17-9/23 (2006) of EHP. The only by Burch a.o. I find in EHP: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/8237/8237.html and it is an investigation about RF levels, not about health markers.

The radiation goes up to levels between 5,000 and 2,000,000 mikroWatt/m2. In the EMF-Handbuch of the Ecolog Institute (2006) you find the attached tables. They are based on a thorough scientific overview.

Indications of increased cell proliferation from 1,000 mikroWatt/m2, weak indications of EHS from 2,000 mikroWatt/m2, consistent indications of nervous system impairment from 10,000 mikroWatt/m2, consistent indications of cell stress reactions from 50,000 mikroWatt/m2, etcetera.

This one I could find on the care-website, but not in EHP: http://www.c-a-r-e.org/pdfs/CSU%20Final%20Report%208-24-05%20_2_.pdf

RF exposure group 3 does not fit in very well.

Frans

HLV INFO 103/AT

19-09-2006

Göttinger Hirnforscher warnt!

Frankfurter Rundschau 18-09-06

Kinder verlieren Sinn für Realität

Osnabrück (AP) Exzessiver Gebrauch von Computer und Handy hinterlässt im Gehirn von Kindern tiefe Spuren. Den Betroffenen drohe sogar der Verlust des Realitätssinns, warnte der Göttinger Hirnforscher Gerald Hüther in der "Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung": "Ist dieser Prozess weit fortgeschritten, finden sich die Kinder und Jugendlichen in der realen Welt nicht mehr zurecht." Schätzungen zufolge sind allein in Deutschland mehr als 100.000 junge Menschen computersüchtig.

Die Veränderungen im Gehirn beschreibt der Neurobiologe so: Anfänglich dünne Verbindungswege würden durch intensive Nutzung immer dicker und seien am Ende gar Autobahnen: "Die sind dann so beschaffen, dass man, wenn man einmal drauf kommt, nicht wieder runterkommt", sagte Hüther. Betroffene müssten dann nur noch einen Computer sehen und hätten schon das Bedürfnis, sich davor zu setzen.

Mit jeder Stunde aber, die Kinder vor dem Computer verbrächten, fehle ihnen eine Stunde, um ihr Gehirn für die Anforderungen im wirklichen Leben weiterzuentwickeln, erklärte der Autor des gerade erscheinenden Buchs "Computersüchtig". Ähnlich wie konkrete Tätigkeiten beim Computerspiel würden auch die virtuellen Vorstellungswelten von den Kindern aufgenommen und verinnerlicht: "Das Gehirn wird so, wie man es benutzt", betonte der Professor.

Solche Spuren hinterlässt laut Hüther auch der exzessive Gebrauch von Handys und Kurzmitteilungen: So werde die Region im Hirn von Jugendlichen, die die Regulation der Daumenbewegungen steuere, seit zehn Jahren immer größer. "Im Klartext heißt das: Die Einführung einer neuen Kulturtechnik, in diesem Falle SMS und Handys, die Jugendliche besonders intensiv nutzen, hat dazu geführt, dass sich ihr Hirn entsprechend strukturiert", erklärte Hüther. Er forderte Konsequenzen: "Wir müssen uns deshalb fragen, ob wir die Verantwortung für die Strukturierung des Hirns unserer Kinder weiter allein den Werbestrategen der Hersteller von Handys und Computerspielen überlassen wollen."

Ähnliche Suchtstruktur wie bei Alkohol und Cannabis

Frühere Studien hatten bereits gezeigt, dass Computerspielen genau so zur Sucht werden kann und zu den gleichen Hirnreaktionen führt wie der Konsum von Alkohol oder Cannabis. Nach Erkenntnissen der Suchtforschungsgruppe der Berliner Charité kann aus Spielspaß dann eine Abhängigkeit entstehen, wenn das Gehirn auf Dauer bestimmten Belohnungsreizen ausgesetzt wird. Diese positiven Reize führten zur vermehrten Ausschüttung des Botenstoffes Dopamin im Vorderhirn und wie beim Konsum von Drogen zum ersehnten Glücksgefühl. Als Folge wiederholter Belohnungsreize entsteht nach Angaben der Wissenschaftler dann ein so genanntes Suchtgedächtnis, was bei mehr als jedem zehnten Computerspieler der Fall ist.

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http://www.fr-aktuell.de/in_und_ausland/multimedia/aktuell/?em_cnt=971670

We are glad to announce the opening of a new website for the International Commission on Electromagnetic Safety. http://www.icems.eu is now available online.

This site was created to hold the proceedings of the Benevento Workshop and will serve ICEMS organizational requirements going forward.

We are releasing the Benevento Resolution, signed by 31 scientists, along with a press release, as of tomorrow, September 19, 2006. You can refer to the press release in directing others to the site.


Kind regards,

Elizabeth Kelley
ICEMS - Managing Secretariat International Commission For Electromagnetic Safety Montepulciano, Italy
Email: info@icems.eu
Web: http://www.icems.eu

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=551

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Press release on Benevento resolution
http://www.icems.eu/docs/Benevento_press_release.pdf

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I along with my colleagues from the EM Radiation Research Trust Chairman Mike Bell and Dr Gerard Hyland attended the Benevento Conference in February. Dr Hyland gave another one of his brilliant presentations and his name is included on this impressive list of scientists. It was a great honour and privilege to meet the many brilliant scientists who have signed this resolution. We owe a debt of gratitude to them for their continued dedication and commitment researching this serious issue with the limited funds available. Urgent funding needs to be released to this trusted group of scientists in order to continue with this important work. There is an opportunity within this appeal for doctors and scientists to add their names to the list; please show your support.

Thank you to the Mayor and people of Benevento and special thanks to Libby Kelly for organising such an important and historic event.


Eileen O’Connor
Trustee
EM Radiation Research Trust
http://www.radiationresearch.org

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----- Original Message -----
From:
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:26 PM
Subject: Benevento Resolution Attached

Benevento Resolution on EMF
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/benevento_resolution.pdf

In case some of you may not have seen this. Resolution is attached and signed by 31 scientists from around the world. Released September 19th, 2007.

Dr. Magda Havas, B.Sc. Ph.D.
Environmental & Resource Studies,
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8
phone: 705 748-1011 x 1232 fax: 705 748-1569
mhavas@trentu.ca


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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This is to inform you that the Benevento Resolution has been updated to include eleven new signators - http://www.icems.eu

Other revisions to the site include:

1. Application guidelines,
2. A copy of the Resolution on its own web page
3. In addition to the Official English original, five translations of the Resolution are inserted as pdf files - French, Hebrew, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.

We hope to add Italian and German translations shortly.

If you are a scientist and wish to sign the resolution, or know of someone who might be interested, we refer you to the submission guidelines posted at http://www.icems.eu .

Kind regards,

Libby

Elizabeth Kelley
Benevento Resolution Coordinator
International Commission For Electromagnetic Safety
Email: info(at)icems.eu
Web: http://www.icems.eu


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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Benevento Resolution - Résolution de Benevento

http://www.next-up.org/pages/NewsoftheWorld74BeneventoResolution.php

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The Catania Resolution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/566302/

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Veröffentlichung der "Benevento Resolution"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2717626/

For those of you that can read and understand Swedish, or get automatic translations, please note the following brand new article:

Johansson O, "Hur ska vi bemöta den ökade mängden luftburen strålning?"
(="How shall we cope with the increased amount of airwave radiation?", in Swedish), Medicinsk Access 2006; 2 (5): 76-78 http://www.medicinskaccess.se/nr5_2006/debatt_5_2006.pdf

Olle Johansson,
assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

People are becoming addicted to mobile phones, causing them to become stressed and irritable, work suggests.

Dr David Sheffield, of the University of Staffordshire, found problem behaviour linked to using a mobile in 16% of 106 users who were studied.

In a separate study, to be presented at a conference in Essex later, he found blood pressure was lower in those who had given up using mobile phones.

But operators said mobile phones should be seen as a "liberating" tool.

Researchers quizzed student mobile phone owners about how they used their phone.

Some 16% were found to have problem behaviour linked to using their phone - either lying about how much they used them, becoming irritable after using them or being overly pre-occupied with them.

The result of this was to cause the user stress, Dr Sheffield will tell the British Psychological Society.

The theory was reinforced by tests carried out on 20 mobile phone users before and while giving up their mobile phones.

The results showed once people had started cutting down their mobile phone use, their blood pressure was lower when talking about them than before.

Dr Sheffield will say the findings reflect the way the mobile phone market has grown.

The industry is now worth £13bn in the UK - up a tenth on last year - and a third of all calls are made on mobiles.

Cancer

"Mobile phones have impacted on every aspect of our social world," Dr Sheffield will say.

"These findings suggest that large numbers use mobile phones heavily and that their use impacts on their lives."

The warnings come after years of debate about whether mobile phones increase the risk of cancer.

There have been mixed results from studies, although the government-commissioned Stewart report concluded mobile phones did not appear to harm health.

However, expert advice is still to limit mobile phone use as a precautionary measure.

David Pringle, of the GSM Association, the trade body for mobile phone operators, said there were two sides to the argument.

"We would say mobile phones are a liberating tool. You can switch them off so you only need be contactable when you want to be.

"They have given people choice, allowing people to work out of the office, and security."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/5343000.stm

Published: 2006/09/13 23:09:27 GMT

© BBC MMVI


Informant: Sandi from Mast Sickness UK

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GSM Base Station Electromagnetic Radiation and Oxidative Stress in Rats
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2681143/

HLV INFO 102/AT

17-09-2006

Volker Hartenstein, MdL a.D.
16-09-06

Hier noch eine Recherchierung. Herr W. Kuhn hat es mit Ing. L. Gephart und ein paar anderen verfasst.


Freundliche Grüße

Guido Huwiler,
eidg. dipl. Baubiologe / Bauökologe


Quelle/Informant(in): Dr. Moldan, Bayern


Betr. Kommentar zur “Schweizer Replikation“ der TNO Studie

Manipulierte Studie für manipulierte öffentliche Meinung???
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/kuhn_gephart_umts_nachfolge_kommentar_zur_schweizer_tno_studie.rtf

Electromagn Biol Med. 2006;25(3):177-88.

Yurekli AI, Ozkan M, Kalkan T, Saybasili H, Tuncel H, Atukeren P, Gumustas K, Seker S.

Tubitak-Uekae, EMC TEMPEST Test Center, Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey.

The ever increasing use of cellular phones and the increasing number of associated base stations are becoming a widespread source of nonionizing electromagnetic radiation. Some biological effects are likely to occur even at low-level EM fields. In this study, a gigahertz transverse electromagnetic (GTEM) cell was used as an exposure environment for plane wave conditions of far-field free space EM field propagation at the GSM base transceiver station (BTS) frequency of 945 MHz, and effects on oxidative stress in rats were investigated. When EM fields at a power density of 3.67 W/m2 (specific absorption rate = 11.3 mW/kg), which is well below current exposure limits, were applied, MDA (malondialdehyde) level was found to increase and GSH (reduced glutathione) concentration was found to decrease significantly (p < 0.0001). Additionally, there was a less significant (p = 0.0190) increase in SOD (superoxide dismutase) activity under EM exposure.

PMID: 16954120 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16954120&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum

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This is another really interesting piece of the jigsaw and confirms the earlier Turkish studies (below). The oxidative stress could well be the signature of nitric oxide imbalance, since this disruption interacts with SOD and produces far more potent free radicals than NO alone. Further, there is evidence that NO inhibits serotonin, a precursor of melatonin:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10465443&dopt=Abstract

Nitric oxide transforms serotonin into an inactive form and this affects neuromodulation.

Fossier P, Blanchard B, Ducrocq C, Leprince C, Tauc L, Baux G.

But the signatures of oxidative stress are clear.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15729859&dopt=Abstract

J Dermatol. 2004 Nov;31(11):878-83.

Oxidative stress-mediated skin damage in an experimental mobile phone model can be prevented by melatonin.

Ayata A, Mollaoglu H, Yilmaz HR, Akturk O, Ozguner F, Altuntas I.

and:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16317515&query_hl=1

Mol Cell Biochem. 2006 Jan;282(1-2):83-8.

Protective effects of melatonin and caffeic acid phenethyl ester against retinal oxidative stress in long-term use of mobile phone: A comparative study.

Ozguner F, Bardak Y, Comlekci S.

and:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12415560&dopt=Abstract

Effects of electromagnetic radiation from a cellular telephone on the oxidant and antioxidant levels in rabbits.

Irmak MK, Fadillioglu E, Gulec M, Erdogan H, Yagmurca M, Akyol O

What else is fascinating is this:

http://www.emf-portal.de/viewer.php?aid=10490&sid=ba6c6a0393240bf09fc98782ceef088c&sform=1&pag_idx=0&l=e

Ginkgo biloba prevents mobile phone-induced oxidative stress in rat brain.

Why? Because ginkgo biloba is a nitric oxide scavenger. There may therefore be a clue in the use of Vit B12, Omega 3,6,9, ginkgo biloba and melatonin to alleviate EHS (and MCS: see Martin Pall's recent posting). If these are acting to reduce NO build-up, and the suspicion is that NOS may be being activated by EMFs to cause the oxidative stress, and all the EHS symptoms for which NO remains a common thread.

Interesting that Selenium is frequently recommended in the case of EHS. See this study as a possible link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12006087&dopt=Abstract

Selenium deficiency increases the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in RAW 264.7 macrophages: role of nuclear factor-kappaB in up-regulation.

Prabhu KS, Zamamiri-Davis F, Stewart JB, Thompson JT, Sordillo LM, Reddy CC.

It's a big jigsaw, but bits of the picture are becoming clearer. (I won't bore you with more here but there are many more interesting and related interactions to this latest study, that explain things.)

Andy


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Mobile phone users 'stressed out'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2685405/