On the Influence of Weak Magnetic and Electric Fields on the Fluctuations of Ionic Electric Currents in Blood Circulation

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how weak magnetic and electric fields can influence ionic electric currents in blood, proposing a resonance mechanism that may impact biological tissues and circulation, with effects depending on capillary size.

Contribution

It introduces a resonance mechanism explaining how weak static and low-frequency magnetic fields affect ionic currents in blood vessels, a concept lacking a current theoretical model.

Findings

Resonance amplification of ionic currents due to external magnetic fields.

Potential for necrotic tissue changes caused by resonance electric currents.

Magnetic field effects depend on blood capillary radius.

Abstract

An analysis of a variety of existing experimental data leads to the conclusion on the existence of a resonance mechanism allowing weak magnetic fields to affect biological processes. These fields may either be static magnetic fields comparable in magnitude with the magnetic field of the earth or weak ultra-low frequency time-dependent fields. So far, a generally accepted theoretical model allowing one to understand the effect of magnetic and electric fields on biological processes is not available. By this reason, it is not clear which characteristics of the fields, like magnetic and electric field strength, frequency of change of the field, shape of the electromagnetic wave, the duration of the magnetic or electric influence or some particular combination of them, are responsible for the biological effect. In the present analysis it is shown that external time-independent magnetic fields may cause a resonance amplification of ionic electric currents in biological tissues and, in particular, in the vasculature system due to a Brownian motion of charges. These resonance electric currents may cause necrotic changes in the tissues or blood circulation and in this way significantly affect the biological organism. The magnitude of the magnetic fields leading to resonance effects is estimated, it is shown that it depends significantly on the radius of the blood capillaries.