Rat Brain Damage After ONE Cell Phone Exposure - Cost of Losing Yellowstone
Rat Brain Damage After ONE Cell Phone Exposure
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Phones Cause Damage To Rat Brains
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Salford, LG, AE Brun, JL Eberhardt, L Malmgren and BRR Persson.
Nerve cell damage in mammalian brain after exposure to microwaves
GSM mobile phones. Environmental Health Perspectives 111:881-883.
Salford et al. document serious neuronal damage in rat brains
exposure to microwave radiation from a cell phone, at levels
to what people would experience during normal use. Damage to
was observed in several places within the brain, including the
hippocampus and basal ganglia. It was associated with evidence
leakage of proteins through the blood-brain barrier. The authors
concern that "after some decades of (often) daily use, a whole
generation of [cell phone] users may suffer negative effects,
early as middle age."
In a companion news story in the issue of Environmental Health
Perspectives in which the research is published, the journal
"It might be time to get serious about using your headset when
on your mobile phone and encouraging your family members to
What did they do? Salford et al. exposed rats to microwave radiation
from a GSM cell phone, varying the intensity of radiation across
that would be experienced by mobile phone users. The rats were
within plastic trays inside a specially constructed wooden box
allowed free movement, other than to prevent direct contact
source of radiation. One set of animals was placed in the box
turning on the transmitter; they served as a control group.
were exposed to peak power densities of 0.24, 2.4 and 24 Watts/square
meter (which translates to 2 milliWatts per kg, 20 mW/kg and
respectively). Each group contained 8 animals.
After a 50-day waiting period, during which the rats were monitored
behavioral abnormalities, Salford et al. killed the animals,
removed their brains, and studied them by applying stains and
antibodies that allowed detection of abnormalities.
What did they find? As expected, both control and experimental
had albumin within the hypothalamus. This is normal.
Exposed animals, however, were much more likely to have albumin
from blood vessels in inappropriate locations.
A closer look at the cells within the brain revealed that exposed
animals had "scattered and grouped dark neurons... often shrunken..
loss of internal cell structures." These altered neurons were
all locations, but "especially the cortex, hippocampus and basal
What does it mean? Most of the public debate about possible
effects of microwave radiation from cell phones has focused
While debate about this continues, most studies, including by
research team, have had negative results.
This work focuses on a different mechanism which had been identified
earlier authors (e.g., Oscar and Hawkins 1977) but not pursued
vigorously: increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier.
results cleary establish an adverse impact at levels within
experienced by people using cell phones.
According to these scientists, "intense use of mobile phones
youngsters is a serious consideration. A neuronal damage of
described here may not have immediate, demonstrable consequences,
if repeated. In the long run, however, it may result in reduced
reserve capacity that might be unveiled by other later neuronal
or even the wear and tear of aging.
We cannot exclude that after some decades of (often) daily use,
generation of users may suffer negative effects, perhaps as
early as in
That is a cautious way of saying that Salford and his team of
are very concerned about the possible human impacts of cell
Indeed, as noted above, the journal in which these results were
published, Environmental Health Perspectives (the journal of
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), went so
far as to
recommend using headsets.
of Losing Yellowstone
Although it's a long shot to happen in the next few days, over
period of time, there's a good chance that Yellowstone will
blow its top
and the simmering caldera will let rip with Mt. St. Helen's
magnitude. I've been watching this sort of out of the
corner of one eye
because if or when the Yellowstone Park area goes in any kind
eruption, the impacts on food supplies worldwide will be horrible.
plume area from Yellowstone covers a good-sized chunk of the
Reader reports and items which we have picked up off news groups
sounding pretty scary. Areas are being closed off, there
are reports of
dead animals and even fish are reported dying off in large numbers.
Against this background, the USGS says there is an increase
government monitoring, such as a recent news release that says
"In response to notably increased heat and steam emissions in
Norris Geyser Basin, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory will
temporary network of seismographs, Global Positioning System
receivers, and temperature loggers. The temporary deployment
to document chemical and physical signals that accompany this
activity, to identify the underground locations of hydrothermal
sources and the relationship of the Norris geyser basin to the
background general seismicity, and crustal deformation
Yellowstone caldera. It may also detect any precursory signals
eruptions and hydrothermal explosions.
A reader sends in this interesting compilation, which augments
reports we have had: "fish are floating dead in the streams,
lake is closed. A very strong smell of H2SO4 (sulfur). People
leaving due to smell --- He also mentioned that the Seismo sites
been shut down" and "there is a large dead zone of animals and
vegetation. Immediately outside this dead zone, vegetation has
growing and animals are migrating out of the area.
New geysers and mud pots are springing up daily. You can physically
the ground bulging up, not only at Yellowstone Lake, but in
places in the park" enclosed are 2 brief reports on this matter.
1. First report
Yellowstone is worse than we thought --The husband of my daughter's
social studies teacher is staying at the Crow Reservation in
100 miles from Yellowstone. He said that over and above everything
have heard to date (which he says is absolutely true), there
is a large
dead zone of animals and vegetation. Immediately outside this
vegetation has stopped growing and animals are migrating out
area. New geysers and mud pots are springing up daily. You can
physically see the ground bulging up, not only at Yellowstone
in several places in the park. They have closed more areas to
than is being reported. There are several areas where the ground
temperature tops 200 degrees. And earthquakes are becoming a
2. Second report
Anonymous warning from visitor to Yellowstone
Tue Sep 2 2003 3:10:31 pm
Hello folks, next door neighbor just got back from a weeks stay
Yellowstone. we talked and I was told a lot more camping areas
closed off besides around the Lake. he is an avid fisherman,
fish are floating dead in the streams, and the lake is closed.
strong smell of H2SO4 (sulfur) People were leaving due to smell
also mentioned that the Seismo sites had been shut down!??????
Did some homework on Utah and Montana sites YEP---- looks like
are not being updated after Aug 29-30-----Can anyone confirm??
out there near Yellowstone that might be able to fill us in?
Your Thoughts Folks???? Scorpio
Well, you might want to bookmark the Yellowstone recent quakes
so you won't
have to search for it if the area pops off shortly.
The other thing to consider is how the economy of Wyoming and
surrounding states will do should the area become explosively
Yellowstone tourism and trade contributes directly about 15%
economic activity. A series of major quakes, explosions, and
activity could put this event in the class of a "supervolcano".
post I found put it:
"When Yellowstone goes off again, and it will, it will be a
the United States and eventually, for the whole world. We volcanologists
believe it would all begin with the magma chamber becoming unstable.
Observations would begin by seeing bigger earthquakes, greater
as magma intrudes and gets nearer and nearer the surface.
may send a rupture through a brittle layer similar to breaking
off a pressure cooker. This would generate sheets of magma,
perhaps rise up to 30, 40 or 50 kilometers sending gigantic
debris into the atmosphere. Pyroclastic flows would cover the
region, killing tens of thousands of people in the surrounding
The ash carried in the atmosphere and deposited over vast areas
United States would have devastating effects. A plume
of material that
goes up into the atmosphere, globally, from the eruption would
the climatic effects. This would spread worldwide and have a
effect that would most likely destroy the growing season on
As Dr. Ted Nield, of the Geological Society of London, stated
"When a supervolcano goes off, it is an order of magnitude greater
a normal eruption. It produces energy equivalent to an impact
comet or an asteroid." "You can try diverting an asteroid,
but there is
nothing at all you can do about a supervolcano."
The eruption will throw out cubic kilometers of rock, ash, dust,
dioxide and so on into the upper atmosphere, where it will reflect
incoming solar radiation, forcing down temperatures on the earth's
surface. It would be the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
would last for four or five years with crops failing and the
ecosystem breaking down."
Informant: Klaus H. Mueller
from Ross Adey and Henry Lai on French/Blood study
Back in July 2003 I send a file copy of the Peter French/Alan
mobile phone research paper to both Ross Adey and Henry Lai
comments. Their replies were received soon after which
I then sent on
to Microwave News for Louis Slesin to deal with. Unfortunately
as Microwave News is now closed down for the remainder of this
have decided to send out a slightly abbreviated version of the
Lai comments FYI.
MESSAGE SENT TO BOTH ROSS ADEY AND HENRY LAI IN JUNE:
You may be interested in the attached paper by Peter French
Blood. It is causing a bit of controversy over here as Dr. French
on the national TV "60 Minutes" program that his study" certainly
provides some comfort that the risk of adverse health effects
mobile phone use is likely to be very low, if at all."
The media PR boys are now pushing it for all its worth, calling
worlds-first study that says mobile phones are safe.
After my reading of the paper, rather than being a worlds-first
consider it as just another minor footnote in a long history
REPLY FROM ROSS ADEY:
24 Jul 2003 22:36:51 GMT
Were it not that I consider you a careful and responsible reporter,
would not be taking time for what must be a foreshortened response.
Peter Finch shows a desperate lack of multidisciplinary knowledge
essential to the correct performance of these latest experiments.
How else to interpret the statement that "The exposure system
is of the
TEM cell design, which gives a homogeneous exposure over all
cultures"? This is simply untrue. Beginning in the early 1990s,
involving first a super-computer simulation at the University
Michigan, followed by extensive experimental measurements by
group at the Swiss National Technological University in Zurich,
are major field discrepancies introduced by proximity to the
walls, by the size and shape of the cell culture vessels, by
of the cell culture fluid, and by the orientation of the cultures
respect to the e-plane (electric field) within the cell.
This is simply outrageous.
A major aspect of Peter Finch's hypothesis relates to the possible
of heat shock proteins. Why, then, is there not a single mention
benchmark pioneering studies (with positive results widely published
outstanding peer-reviewed journals) on mechanisms of 60 Hz magnetic
field stimulation of heat shock protein production by Riba Goodman,
Martin Blank and their colleagues, including consideration of
Is Peter Finch's scientific reading limited to the Sydney Morning
Herald, or the Australian, or other pernicious elements of the
Finally, there is the all-important question of intermittency
exposure, measured in minutes, not hours or days. May I remind
an integral aspect of our life term rat brain tumor study that
successfully showed a TDMA (North American Digital Cellular
pulses/sec,30% duty cycle) field-induced reduction in both spontaneous
and drug-induced central nervous tumors used a protocol of 7.5
ON/7.5 min OFF in a 2-hr daily exposure. Parenthetically, the
of this finding, consistent with epigenetic cancer models, is
finding of an interaction with the field, not whether there
increase OR a decrease in tumor numbers.
Studies from Rudiger's lab in the University of Vienna have
modulation of single- and double-DNA trend breaks in primary
fibroblast cultures exposed to either 50 Hz magnetic fields
or to GSM
mobile phone fields. A critical aspect of these studies exemplifying
importance of intermittent exposure was a protocol of 5 min
OFF. The US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
currently engaged in selecting such a scheme of intermittent
for a planned life term rat study.
Peter Finch makes no reference to this work. It is therefore
surprising that he has also overlooked benchmark studies from
Murphy et al, showing how the intracellular Ras enzyme is activated
cell membrane surface MAP (mitogen-activated protein kinases)
ERK2 in a time-dependent manner, switching between signaling
differentiation or cell proliferation, if the surface stimulating
changes from a few minutes to 30-45 minutes. Other recent work
Cambridge by Michael Berridge and Martin Bootman
(Bootman is also
engaged in mobile phone research for the British Govt) identifies
calcium as the "driver" controlling cellular cyclicities with
from microseconds to hours. I might mention here that our team
first to define a critical role for calcium in EM field interactions
For Peter Finch to conclude that his experiments have adequately
considered the key questions outlined above is ludicrous and
irresponsible. We may say with Hamlet to the grave digger, "There
more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than dreamt of in
philosophy!" Or better yet, in G.B Shaw's immortal words from
Barbara, "What price salvation now?" Or I could be crudely
my Australian dialect which I still hold preciously, "Why don't
the hell out of here and stay out?" Those of us who have suffered
much for so many years from the media ripples generated by the
pronouncements of the dubiously qualified are now determined
to do our
best to stamp them out at source.
I attach two recent short updates and revisions that I have
the International Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd Edition,
London. As sources of recent research literature on EM field
with the central nervous system, perhaps you may find them useful.
separate note, I will send you a recent book chapter summarizing
With my best wishes - Ross
REPLY FROM HENRY LAI:
Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:43:46 EDT
Thanks for forwarding Peter's paper. In my opinion, the research
incomplete and preliminary. Apparently, the experiment was run
once. There were actually some effects. He also made the wrong
comparisons between treatment groups. He needs to compare the
groups with the sham group, not the control group. I also doubt
exposure system and procedures he used are good even though
he gave no
details on the system. For example, proper temperature control,
mixture for the samples in the TEM cell, and it is difficult
uniform exposure in a Falcon flask (I hope they considered the
problem when they did the calculation). Anyway, I think it is
premature to go on national TV to talk about the data he has
No real progress can be made.
It seems to me that no real progress can be made in gauging
of EMF upon humans until there is a fuller understanding of
electrical system, and that is precisely what I hope my book
Speed and the Body Electric" can do.
While EMF researchers have long been looking for connections
energy and health problems, certainly a worthy effort, I have
primarily concerned with cognitive effects.
One difference between the two focuses is that health effects
years to manifest themselves, while cognitive effects are established,
believe, the effort to find health effects will intensity.
EMF interfere with the brain function. This type for energy
nerve conduction. That is the key point. This means that every
quantifiable, measurable brain activity (verbal, computational,
reasoning, creativity, etc.) slows down. In short, one becomes
Reaction time - a vital sign as important as temperature, blood
pressure, etc. - definitely slows down and university-level
should soon make this clear.
Contact with a cell phone greatly increases the negative electrical
charge on the human body and drives off the counterbalancing
Thanks for all the great work you do with your EMF network.
P.O. Box 381
Manitowoc WI 54220
Omega: see also http://tinyurl.com/o1q2
Genuine appeal for help again something that is destroying me.
I think about your symptoms that you are simply becoming
This is perhaps a form of allergy and even a cross allergy between
electromagnetic fields and some chemical products (pesticides,
medications or heavy metals). You must first let take measurements
your mouth between metallic alloys. Many dentists do not believe
fact, but sometimes such metal couplings give a battery effect
1000 millivolts) in the mouth and are exciting face nerves (trigeminus).
The only change of the more active metal can bring the suppression
the symptoms. This is the first thing to do.
Sincerely yours, J.M. Danze
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