Resonant interaction between electromagnetic fields and proteins: A possible starting point for the treatment of cancer

Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine
Emanuele Calabrò, Salvatore Magazù

Abstract

Samples of human hemoglobin, bovine serum albumin, lysozyme and myoglobin were used as prototype of proteins to investigate their response to exposure to high frequency electromagnetic fields (HF-EMFs), in order to study possible application to the treatment of cancer. To this aim, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy was used in the infrared region. The most evident result which appeared after 3 h exposure to HF-EMFs was a significant increase in intensity of the Amide I band and of CH2 bending vibrations, showing that the proteins aligned toward the direction of the field. In addition, proteins' unfolding and aggregation occurred after exposure to HF-EMFs. These findings can be explained assuming a resonance interaction between the natural frequencies of proteins and HF-EMFs, which can induce iperpolarization of cells. Given that cancerous tissues were found to have natural frequencies different from natural frequencies of normal tissues, we can hypothesize to irradiate cancerous tissues using EMFs at natural frequencies of cancer cells, causing resonant interaction with cellular membrane channels, inducing increasing of ions' flux across cellular channels and damaging the cellular functions of cancer cells.

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Jan 23, 2019·International Journal of Radiation Biology·Emanuele Calabrò, Salvatore Magazù

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