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Biological effects of low-level, very low-frequency (VLF) electric fields on the blood sedimentation rate

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Experiments were performed to detect a possible effect on in vitro irradiated human blood samples. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and the bioimpedence of both treated with a low-level 1.59 kHz electrical field and untreated blood samples were measured. A statistically significant difference (P < 0.001) was found in the blood sedimentation rates between “Controls” and those exposed to VLF-field condition. The most striking result was that for a 20% of the blood samples analyzed under the influence of the VLF-field, the ESR tests were almost stopped by the latter, i.e. the blood sedimentation did not occur. Bioimpedance value of “stopped” blood samples were one order of magnitude lower than those of unirradiated samples.

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  1. Liquid State Physics Laboratory, Istituto di Fisica, University of Florence, Largo E. Fermi 2 (Arcetri), 50125, Florence, Italy

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Senatra, D., Perego, A. & Giubilaro, G. Biological effects of low-level, very low-frequency (VLF) electric fields on the blood sedimentation rate. Int J Biometeorol 22, 59–66 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01553141

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