Subject: Latest EMF study results.......
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 152222 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
Be sure you read this!!!!! [Guru offers one comment, in the text, thus.]
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
Latest EMF study........
New Scientific Evidence Reawakens Concerns About Electromagnetic Fields
Generated by Power Lines, Household Electrical Wiring and Appliance Usage
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Two new studies reawaken concerns
about the risks of exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF). This research,
which was conducted by collaborating scientists from Hughes Institute, St.
Paul, Minn.; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.; University of
California, Riverside, Calif.; Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; and Kansai
Medical University, Moriguchi, Japan, will be published in the Journal of
Biological Chemistry, official journal of the American Society for
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The first report will appear in the
February 13, 1998 issue and the second in April, 1998.
Conducted under the aegis of a research grant award from the National
Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (grant number R01-ES-07175), the
studies provide conclusive evidence that inside cells electromagnetic fields
can activate certain signaling pathways that have been associated with cancer.
Specifically, it was discovered that the products of cancer promoting genes
known as Src tyrosine kinases are rapidly activated by EMF exposure. The
functions of other key cellular elements facilitating the cancer-promoting
function of these tyrosine kinases also seem to be amplified five- to ten-
fold. In addition, the results of these studies demonstrate that EMF may
alter biochemical events inside the elements of the immune system that
determine our susceptibility to infections.
These studies are the first to shed light on the possible mechanism for the
long-suspected albeit controversial links between EMF exposure and cancer
risk. A number of epidemiologic studies suggested the possibility that EMF
radiation from power lines, household electrical wiring and appliance usage
may contribute to the risk of childhood leukemia. Recent reports showed that
living in homes characterized by high measured time-weighted average magnetic
field levels or by the highest wire-code category does not increase the risk
of leukemia in children.
***[Many of you will realize that in the above paragraph the reporter must
have lifted some of the words from the original NCI (Linet study) press
release..... As subsequent analysis showed ... the press release was
wrong!!! The study DID show an association at the 3 mG level and
above.... And, of course, the problem with having based the study on a
"time weighted MF average" (the assumed EMF exposure) _never was
addressed_ by a science group that was simply too embarrassed to
deal with it.... guru]
However, concerns regarding other forms of EMF
exposure remain. It is thought that EMF may participate in the production of
leukemia by influencing the proliferation, survival, and/or differentiation
programs of leukemia cells.
The results of these studies reawaken concerns and urge more research,
awareness and public discussion about the potential risks of electromagnetic
field exposure. For technical information, contact the corresponding senior
author, Dr. Fatih Uckun, Hughes Chair in Oncology, Hughes Institute, by paging
him at 800-670-0268.
References:
Dibirdik I, Kristupaitis D, Kurosaki T, Tuel-Ahlgren L, Chu A, Pond D, Tuong
D, Luben R, Uckun FM. Stimulation of Src family protein tyrosine kinases as a
proximal and mandatory step for SYK kinase-dependent phospholipase C Gamma 2
activation in lymphoma B-cells exposed to low energy electromagnetic fields.
Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273:4035-4039, 1998
Kristupaitis D, Dibirdik I, Vassilev A, Mahajam S, Kurosaki T, Chu A, Tuel-
Ahlgren L, Tuong D, Pond D, Luben R, Uckun FM. Electromagnetic field-induced
stimulation of bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK). Journal of Biological
Chemistry. in press, 1998.
SOURCE Wayne Hughes Institute
ST: Minnesota
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