ID Number		1213
Study Type		Engineering & Physics
Model		Theoretical study to determine if low level (non-thermal) RF fields might have biological effects due to mechanisms that lower the normal (thermal) threshold
Details		Mechanistic study to determine whether anatomical and micro-anatomical structure of tissues, cells, and cell membranes of RF-exposed matter might enhance internal fields enough to lower the threshold energy level required for an effect on cell function. The project looks at whether RF fields can introduce physicochemical signals larger than inherent background noise as a means to determine if biophysical mechanisms other than those presently understood (i.e., thermal) might account for reported biological effects using very low level RF fields for exposure. The authors suggest that such findings either (1) involve an unknown biophysical mechanism with stronger coupling between the field exposure and the ongoing biochemical process, or (2) the experiment is responding to something other than the field exposure (i.e., variability or artifact).
Findings		No Effects
Status		Completed With Publication
Principal Investigator		Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - jcw@mit.edu
Funding Agency		NIH, USA, MMF
Country		UNITED STATES
References		Vaughan, TE et al. Bioelectromagnetics, (2005) 26:305-322
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