Effects of static and low-frequency alternating magnetic fields on the ionic electrolytic currents of glutamic acid aqueous solutions

Electromagn Biol Med. 2008;27(1):25-39. doi: 10.1080/15368370701878788.

Abstract

A current peak has been observed and measured in ionic electrolytic current of a glutamic acid aqueous solution, placed in a static magnetic field of flux density of 40 microT, with a superimposed low-frequency alternating magnetic field of flux density of 40 nT. The peak occurs at the frequency of the cyclotronic resonance of the molecular mass of a single charged glutamic acid ion, placed in a magnetic flux density equal to that of the static field. The amplitude of the current peak is about 30% of the background electrolytic current. Qualitative considerations and a listing of unsolved problems related to the phenomenology are given. The result is the first contribution to the study we have undertaken on the effects of low-frequency alternating electromagnetic fields on the ionic current of amino acid aqueous solutions which are the basic structural units of the proteins.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electrolytes / chemistry*
  • Electromagnetic Fields*
  • Glutamic Acid / chemistry*
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Solutions
  • Time Factors
  • Water / chemistry*

Substances

  • Electrolytes
  • Solutions
  • Water
  • Glutamic Acid