INFLUENCE OF EMF ON FREE RADICAL MEDIATED TOXOCOLOGICAL PROCESSES

尽管流行病学研究表明有一种微弱的 电磁场暴露与癌症的关系 目前，几乎没有可信的分子机制来解释这一点。 效果。已知自由基在癌症病因学中的作用 而其他疾病增加了电磁场可能通过某种方式发挥作用的可能性 增加自由基的寿命和/或浓度。它有 多年来一直知道在有组织的媒体(例如洗涤剂)中 胶束)外加磁场导致平均自由态增加 能浓缩自由基，延长自由基寿命。如果 这些效应发生在体内，这可能解释了一些已报道的 电磁场的生物效应。我们的初步研究主要集中在 完整红细胞作为一种测试系统，可以用来研究 MF对自由基过程的影响。我们发现酮洛芬， 一种光毒性、非类固醇消炎药(结构相关 二苯甲酮)，引起人红细胞完全溶血 只需20分钟的紫外线照射。当紫外线照射在一个 磁场(3500G)50%发生溶血所需的时间 细胞(T)显著缩短(78min比96min)。这 观察结果可以归因于磁场引起的 双三重态自由基对的体系间交叉率 由酮洛芬在其三重态激发态通过 红细胞膜成分，可能是脂质。据我们所知，这是 是第一次证明了MF对毒理学过程的影响 众所周知，这是通过自由基机制发生的。

Although epidemiological studies suggest that there is a weak relationship between exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and cancer there are at present few plausible molecular mechanisms to explain this effect. The known involvement of free radicals in the etiology of cancer and other diseases raises the possibility that EMF may somehow act by increasing the lifetime and/or concentration of free radicals. It has been known for many years that in organized media (e.g. detergent micelles) applied magnetic fields cause an increase in average free radical concentration and lengthen the lifetime of free radicals. If these effects occur in vivo then this may explain some of the reported biological effects of EMF. Our initial studies have focused on the intact erythrocyte as a test system that could be used to study the effects of MF on free radical processes. We have found that ketoprofen, a phototoxic, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (structurally related to benzophenone), caused complete hemolysis of human erythrocytes after only 20 min UV irradiation. When UV irradiation was carried out in a magnetic field (3500G) the time taken for hemolysis to occur in 50% of the cells (t) was significantly shortened (78 min vs. 96 min). This observation can be attributed to a magnetic field induced decrease in the rate of intersystem crossing of the geminate triplet radical pair generated by the reduction of ketoprofen in its triplet excited state by erythrocyte membrane components, probably lipids. To our knowledge this is the first demonstration of an effect of MF on a toxicological process that is known to occur via a free radical mechanism.