Modelling assemblies of biological cells exposed to electric fields

Author

Fear, E.C. ; Stuchly, M.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

25-28 May 1997

Firstpage

621

Abstract

The interaction mechanisms of electromagnetic (EM) fields at very low frequencies remain elusive. To better understand the behaviour of cells in EM fields, the authors model configurations of gap-junction connected cells using the finite element method. Their results verify simplified models used to estimate transmembrane potential in chains of gap-connected cells, and suggest that more complex models are required to describe the frequency behaviour of chains of cells

Keywords

biological effects of fields; cellular effects of radiation; electric field effects; finite element analysis; physiological models; EM field interaction mechanism; biological cellular assemblies; cell chain frequency behaviour; gap-connected cell chains; gap-junction connected cells; transmembrane potential estimation; very low frequency electromagnetic fields; Assembly; Biological cells; Biological system modeling; Biological systems; Biomembranes; Cells (biology); Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic modeling; Finite element methods; Frequency estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. IEEE 1997 Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Johns, Nfld.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3716-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1997.608312

Filename

608312