• DocumentCode
    1181230
  • Title

    Studies on the Effect of Radio-Frequency Waves on Biological Macromolecules

  • Author

    Takashima, Shiro

  • Author_Institution
    Electromedical Lab., Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1966
  • Firstpage
    28
  • Lastpage
    31
  • Abstract
    The effect of radio-frequency electric fields on various biologic materials was examined. Particularly, the effects on alcohol dehydrogenase and DNA were carefully investigated. To avoid the effects of heating, a pulsed electric field was used, and samples were also rigorously cooled. The activity of alcohol dehydrogenase and the structure of DNA were not altered, however, even by the prolonged irradiation at high-field intensity between 1 and about 60 Mc/s.
  • Keywords
    Biological materials; Biological system modeling; Broadband amplifiers; Chemicals; DNA; Heating; Molecular biophysics; Proteins; Radio frequency; Signal generators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TBME.1966.4502396
  • Filename
    4502396
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1181230