Acute Effect of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields Resulting from Significant Frequencies of High and Low Triangular Waves on White Blood Cells

摘要

The study of the effects of electromagnetic fields on biological systems have started in recentyears and have had significant impacts and outputs which requires ample paying and further research,especially in therapy field. In this study, the effects of electromagnetic fields caused by low-frequencytriangular wave (10 Hz) and high frequency (110 Khz) with 700 milli Gauss intensity on white bloodcells of rats was comparatively studied. For this purpose 30 male Wistar rats were selected and dividedinto three groups of ten. The first group was under high frequency field (110 Khz) for two days andeach time for two hours and the second group were under similar low frequency (10 Hz) but the thirdgroup (control) weren't exposed to any field. Then each of those group members was bled from theirhearts and their blood samples were analyzed based on their approximate white cell numbers. The resultsof the study were compared using t-test and it showed that the total white blood cell counts in both groupswere not statistically different. Differentiation in counting the number of neutrophils were not also statisticallydifferent but reduction in the number of lymphocytes was observed in high frequencies and also increase inthe number of Eosinophils in high frequencies and decrease in low frequencies as well as an increase inmonocytes in lower frequencies was meaningful. According to the result of this research and activitiesconducted by others, the effects of electromagnetic fields on blood factors including white blood cells weresignificant and provide a suitable ground for research and extensive field of therapeutic applications in thissector.