Reply to Comment on “Behavior of Charged Particles in a Biological Cell Exposed to AC-DC Electromagnetic Fields” and on “Comparison Between Two Models of Interaction Between Electric and Magnetic Fields and Proteins in Cell Membranes”

摘要

Tnhe article by Halgamuge and Abeyrathne (2011) investigates the behavior of charged particles in a biologicalncell when exposed to various combinations of AC and DCnelectromagnetic fields. First, it should be pointed out thatnthe authors present a treatment of the effects of electric andnmagnetic forces on the displacement, mainly on free chargednparticles and less on bound ion charged particles. It can benaccurately compared with the ion cyclotron resonance (ICR)ntheory, but not with the ion parametric resonance (IPR) theorynof Lednev, which is based on completely different assumptions such as (1) polarization of bound ion orbits by magneticnfields (2) electric interactions between the bound ion and thenprotein. All the calculations by Halgamuge and Abeyrathnen(2011) were performed assuming extremely low viscosities orndrag (k = 10 to 1000 Sn- 1n) and the consequences of highernviscosities (k = 10n14nSn- 1n) are only treated in the discussion. Thenresonance behavior disappears for higher drag, as predictednby Liboff and Lednev from ICR and IPR theories. The studynby Halgamuge and Abeyrathne (2011) neither supports thenion force-vibration theory comprehensively nor is qualified tondo so, since it does not discuss what order of magnitudendisplacement of ions is needed in order to elicit a biologicalneffect when considering higher viscosity medium with actualnbody drag.