Investigation of the effects of continuous-wave, pulse- and amplitude-modulated microwaves on single excitable cells of chara corallina

✍ Scribed by Li-Ming Liu; Francine Garber; Stephen F. Cleary

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 498 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0197-8462
• DOI: 10.1002/bem.2250030204

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Single internodal excitable cells of Chara corallina were exposed to CW, pulse‐modulated and sinusoidally modulated S‐band microwave fields in a temperature‐controled waveguide exposure chamber. All electrical measurements were made external to the waveguide (ie, under no impressed microwave field). The dependent variables measured before, during, and after exposure to the S‐band microwave fields included: resting potential, amplitude of the action potential, rise and decay time of the action potential, conduction velocity, and excitability. Cells maintained at 22 ± 0.1 °C during exposure showed no consistent or statistically significant microwave‐dependent alterations in any of the dependent variables.