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Adlkofer suggests connection between ERK-cascade and DNA-damage by EMF

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Nov 8, 2007, 6:33:43 AM11/8/07
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And what does Xu, the ICNIRP member who found non-thermal DNA damage,
has to say about the thermal ICNIRP standard which he represents?

Iris Atzmon

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Eileen O'Connor
*Sent:* Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:39 PM
*Subject:* Adlkofer suggests connection between ERK-cascade and
DNA-damage by EMF

Further information/research from Professor Franz Adlkofer (Head of
REFLEX project) sent by Frans van Velden.

Kind Regards

Eileen O?Connor

Trustee ? EM Radiation Research Trust

?Genes damaged by radiation?

?Connection between ERK-cascade and DNA-damage?

Prof. Franz Adlkofer suggests a connection between the ERK-cascade found
by Rony Seger and his team and the damage to DNA by high frequency
electromagnetic fields, as found by scientific research. The DNA-damage
might develop because the weak signal of the high frequency radiation is
detected and amplified.

Adlkofer suggested the connection at a meeting of the Open University at
Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Adlkofer of the Verum Foundation in München,
Germany, was the leader of the European Reflex Study. A significant
increase of damage to DNA by high frequency fields was found in part of
the research. The Rony Seger team of the Weizmann Institute of Science
in Rehovot, Israel, found that the so-calles ERK-cascade is activitated
by high frequency electromagnetic fields, at a ?non thermal? density.

The ERK-cascade is a relatively fast reaction to a signal detected by a
cell, working like a biological amplifier by transcription of proteins.
ERK is short for ?extracellular signal regulated kinase?, a signal
activated enzym. The findings of the team were published by Friedman in
the peer-reviewed magazine Biochemical Journal.

Adlkofer was the leader of the Reflex-project (?Risk evaluation of
potential environmental hazards from low energy electromagnetic fields
exposure using sensitive in vitro methods'). The research found a
significant increase of DNA-breaking and micro-nuclei in certain cells
influenced by non-thermal high frequency fields. The Chinese researcher
Xu (a member of a committee of ICNIRP) had found the same before in
2005. The observations were confirmed by Schär of the University of
Basel, Switzerland, but could not be confirmed by Speit of the
University of Ulm, Germany. Why not, is unclear. As a matter of fact,
many more scientists foudn a significant increase of DNA-breaking, among
them Gandhi in India, who tested in vivo (living people with and without
mobile phone)

Adlkofer said that epidemiological studies, like the most recent
research of the Interphone studies, show that the chance of a brain
tumor increases after ten years. It is well known, that the time between
DNA-damage and the development of a tumor can be long. Adlkofer
emphasized that it the suggestion, that only thermal high frequency
fields would have negative consequences for health, is wrong. It is a
fact without doubt that DNA-damage and the amount of micro-nuclei can
increase siginificantly, though according to him it has not been
confirmed in vivo sufficiently yet. He said possibly the use of
electromagnetic fields is a high risk for public health.

6 november 2007

Sources:
- original sheets by Adlkofer, Open University, Gelsenkirchen, Germany,
version 27 09 07
- Friedman et al. (2007), Mechanisms of short-term ERK activation by
electromagnetic fields at mobile phone frequencies, Biochem J. 405:
559-568.


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