Abstract

Magnetic field effects are diffused among living organisms. They are mainly studied with static or extremely low frequency fields, while scarce information is available for pulsed fields. This work is devoted to the study of the interaction between Drosophila melanogaster, both adults and larvae, and pulsed magnetic fields. We exposed the organisms to a peak field of 0.4 T, lasting for about 2 μ s, within an ad hoc designed copper coil. Adult individuals didn't present any deregulation of repetitive sequences in the germ line of Drosophila. Instead, we noticed a marked magnetic field effect in larvae. Polytene chromosomes coming from treated individuals showed the presence of heat shock puffs; the same organisms revealed also an upregulation of the genes encoding for the Hsp70 protein. These observations suggest that the larvae underwent an oxidative stress caused by the modulation of free radicals' yield induced by the magnetic field through a radical pair mechanism.

Autore Pugliese

• Calcagnile Lucio , Nassisi Vincenzo , Bozzetti Maria Giuseppina , Specchia Valeria , Quarta Gianluca

Tutti gli autori

• Delle Side D. , Specchia V. , D'Attis S. , Giuffreda E. , Quarta G. , Calcagnile L. , Bozzetti M. P. , Nassisi V.

Titolo volume/Rivista

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION

Anno di pubblicazione

2016

ISSN

1748-0221

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0

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22/04/2018

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