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Review Article| Volume 22, ISSUE 3, P71-95, July 2006

Evidence of interlinks between bioelectromagnetics and biomechanics: from biophysics to medical physics

  • F. Bistolfi
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    Address for correspondence: Prof. Dr. F. Bistolfi, Emeritus, Chief of Radiotherapy Department, Via Edoardo G.B. Riboli 6/5, I-16145 Genova (Italy).
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1120-1797(06)80002-5
Evidence of interlinks between bioelectromagnetics and biomechanics: from biophysics to medical physics
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      Abstract

      A vast literature on electromagnetic and mechanical bioeffects at the bone and soft tissue level, as well as at the cellular level (osteoblasts, osteoclasts, keratinocytes, fibroblasts, chondrocytes, nerve cells, endothelial and muscle cells) has been reviewed and analysed in order to show the evident connections between both types of physical energies. Moreover, an intimate link between the two is suggested by transduction phenomena (electromagnetic-acoustic transduction and its reverse) occurring in living matter, as a sound biophysical literature has demonstrated.
      However, electromagnetic and mechanical signals are not always interchangeable, depending on their respective intensity. Calculations are reported in order to show in which cases (read: for which values of electric field in V/m and of mechanical pressure in Pa) a given electromagnetic or mechanical bioeffect is only due to the directly impinging energy or even to the indirect transductional energy.
      The relevance of the treated item for the applications of medical physics to regenerative medicine is stressed.
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