ID Number		2420
Study Type		In Vitro
Model		In vitro studies with cells in culture (differentiation of human embryonic stem cells and migration of cardiac microvascular endothelial cells) to pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF).
Details		AUTHORS' ABSTRACT: Wu et al. 2014 (IEEE #5781): Electromagnetic fields are considered to potentially affect embryonic development, but the mechanism is still unknown. In this study, human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line HUES-17 was applied to explore the mechanism of exposure on embryonic development to pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) for 400 pulses at different electric field intensities and the differentiation of HUES-17 cells was observed after PEMF exposure. The expression of alkaline phosphatase (AP), stage-specific embryonic antigen-3 (SSEA-3), SSEA-4 and the mRNA level and protein level of Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog in HUES-17 cells remained unchanged after PEMF exposure at the electric field intensities of 50, 100, 200 or 400 kV/m. Four hundred pulses PEMF exposure at the electric field intensities of 50, 100, 200 or 400 kV/m did not affect the differentiation of HUES-17 cells. The reason why electromagnetic fields affect embryonic development may be due to other mechanisms rather than affecting the differentiation of embryonic stem cells. AUTHORS' ABSTRACT: Li et al. 2015 (IEEE #5887): Heart failure is a disease with multifactorial causes. Recently it was established that reduction in vascular density promoted the progression from adaptive cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure, therefore, therapeutic angiogenesis may be a promising method for treating heart failure. Cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (CMECs) play a major role in cardiac angiogenesis. In the present study, we investigated the direct and indirect effect of pulsed magnetic field (PMF) on the proliferation and migration of CMECs. CMECs were isolated from adult Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat hearts. We found PMF with a frequency of 15 Hz and an intensity of 1.8 mT accelerated the proliferation and migration of CMECs and cardiac myocytes (CMs). Moreover, CMECs treated with PMF released 1.5-fold higher vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and 2-fold higher fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) when compared with PMF-free cells. In addition, CMs treated with PMF released twofold higher FGF-2 compared with PMF-free cells, but there was no change in VEGF levels. Those results suggested PMF has both a direct autocrine mitogenic and an indirect paracrine effect on CMECs proliferation and migration, and the effect of PMF on intercellular communication between CMECs and CMs was partially dependent on FGF-2, but independent on VEGF.
Findings		No Effects
Status		Completed With Publication
Principal Investigator		4th Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
Funding Agency		China National Natural Sc Found
Country		CHINA
References		Wu, YL et al. Int. J. Mol. Sci., (2014) 15:14180-14190 Li, F et al. Bioelectromagnetics., (2015) 36:1-9
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