The effect of ELF Magnetic fields on Nonlinear features of Helix Aspersa’s Neurons

Tavakoli, Hadi; Motie Nasrabadi, Ali; Firouzabadi, Seyed Mohammad; Kaviyani Moghaddam, Mehri

doi:10.22041/ijbme.2012.13110

The effect of ELF Magnetic fields on Nonlinear features of Helix Aspersa’s Neurons

Document Type : Full Research Paper

Authors

Hadi Tavakoli ¹

Ali Motie Nasrabadi ²

Seyed Mohammad Firouzabadi ³

Mehri Kaviyani Moghaddam ⁴

¹ Ph.D Student, BioMedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University

² Associate Professor, BioMedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University

³ Professor,Medical Physics Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University

⁴ Medical Physics Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University

https://doi.org/10.22041/ijbme.2012.13110

Abstract

During recent years, the environment has been enormously changed by the wide range of magnetic fields. Therefore, comprehensive studies are being done for investigating their biological effects. The effects such as inhibition of bioelectric activity of neurons which is shown by evidence, like decreasing in the firing frequency or decreasing in the amplitude of action potential, have been shown. To notify and investigate these effects, the theory of “biological windows” have been proposed and considered. The effects of amplitude and/or frequency of magnetic field have been pointed in some research. In this study, regarding the behavior of nervous system, which has non-linear dynamic behavior, we study the behavior of nervous system under exposure to magnetic field. We investigate whether the low frequency field is able to affect the dynamic of nerve cells and to have influence on non-linear features of signal. We used 6 environmental intensities and 6 cells have been used in each intensity, and by calculating some of non-linear features of action potential such as Higuchi Dimension and Return map of signal, during the time and in some different intensities of magnetic fields, It was observed that all intensities magnetic fields lead to increasing in Higuchi Dimension and increasing in the scattering of the Return map of signal. Of course these effects has been more observed in the middle band of frequency which has been confirmed by the theory of ‘frequency window’ effect of magnetic fields, which it has been noticed and discussed in last two decades.

Keywords

Higuchi Dimension

Action potential

Return Map

Low Frequency Magnetic Fields

chaos

Subjects

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