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Chen X, Watanabe T, Kubo N, Yunoki K, Matsumoto T, Kuwabara T, Sunagawa T, Date S, Mima T, Kirimoto H. Transient Modulation of Working Memory Performance and Event-Related Potentials by Transcranial Static Magnetic Field Stimulation over the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11060739. [PMID: 34199505 PMCID: PMC8228367 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11060739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Revised: 05/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Transcranial static magnetic field stimulation (tSMS) can modulate human cortical excitability and behavior. To better understand the neuromodulatory effect of tSMS, this study investigates whether tSMS applied over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) modulates working memory (WM) performance and its associated event-related potentials (ERPs). Thirteen healthy participants received tSMS or sham stimulation over the left DLPFC for 26 min on different days. The participants performed a 2-back version of the n-back task before, during (20 min after the start of stimulation), immediately after, and 15 min after the stimulation. We examine reaction time for correct responses, d-prime reflecting WM performance, and the N2 and P3 components of ERPs. Our results show that there was no effect of tSMS on reaction time. The d-prime was reduced, and the N2 latency was prolonged immediately after tSMS. These findings indicate that tSMS over the left DLPFC affects WM performance and its associated electrophysiological signals, which can be considered an important step toward a greater understanding of tSMS and its use in studies of higher-order cognitive processes.
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- Xiaoxiao Chen
- Department of Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (X.C.); (N.K.); (K.Y.); (T.M.); (T.K.); (H.K.)
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- Department of Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (X.C.); (N.K.); (K.Y.); (T.M.); (T.K.); (H.K.)
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (X.C.); (N.K.); (K.Y.); (T.M.); (T.K.); (H.K.)
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- Department of Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (X.C.); (N.K.); (K.Y.); (T.M.); (T.K.); (H.K.)
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- Department of Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (X.C.); (N.K.); (K.Y.); (T.M.); (T.K.); (H.K.)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo 102-0083, Japan
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- Department of Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (X.C.); (N.K.); (K.Y.); (T.M.); (T.K.); (H.K.)
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- Department of Analysis and Control of Upper Extremity Function, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (T.S.); (S.D.)
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- Department of Analysis and Control of Upper Extremity Function, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (T.S.); (S.D.)
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- Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto 603-8577, Japan;
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- Department of Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan; (X.C.); (N.K.); (K.Y.); (T.M.); (T.K.); (H.K.)
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Lu XW, Du L, Kou L, Song N, Zhang YJ, Wu MK, Shen JF. Effects of moderate static magnetic fields on the voltage-gated sodium and calcium channel currents in trigeminal ganglion neurons. Electromagn Biol Med 2014; 34:285-92. [PMID: 24712748 DOI: 10.3109/15368378.2014.906448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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AIM To study the effects of static magnetic fields (SMF) on the electrophysiological properties of voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels on trigeminal ganglion (TRG) neurons. METHODS Acutely dissociated TRG neurons of neonatal SD rats were exposed to 125-mT and 12.5-mT SMF in exposure devices and whole-cell patch-clamp recordings were carried out to observe the changes of voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC) and calcium channels (VGCC) currents, while laser scanning confocal microscopy was used to detect intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration in TRG neurons, respectively. RESULTS (1) No obvious change of current-voltage (I-V) relationship and the peak current densities of VGSC and VGCC currents were found when TRG neurons were exposed to 125-mT and 12.5-mT SMF. However, the activation threshold, inactivation threshold and velocity of the channel currents above were significantly altered by 125-mT and 12.5-mT SMF. (2) The fluctuation of intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration within TRG neurons were slowed by 125-mT and 12.5-mT SMF. When SMF was removed, the Ca(2+) concentration level showed partial recovery in the TRG neurons previously exposed by 125-mT SMF, while there was a full recovery found in 12.5-mT-SMF-exposed neurons. CONCLUSIONS Moderate-intensity SMF could affect the electrophysiological characteristics of VGCS and VGCC by altering their activation and inactivation threshold and velocity. The fluctuations of intracellular free Ca(2+) caused by SMF exposure were not permanent in TRG neurons.
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- Xiao-Wen Lu
- a State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and.,b Department of Prosthodontics , West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University , Chengdu , China
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- b Department of Prosthodontics , West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University , Chengdu , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and.,b Department of Prosthodontics , West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University , Chengdu , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and.,b Department of Prosthodontics , West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University , Chengdu , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and.,b Department of Prosthodontics , West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University , Chengdu , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and.,b Department of Prosthodontics , West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University , Chengdu , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and.,b Department of Prosthodontics , West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University , Chengdu , China
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Stanojević V, Prolić Z, Savić T, Todorović D, Janać B. Effects of Extremely Low Frequency (50 Hz) Magnetic Field on Development Dynamics of the Housefly (Musca domesticaL.). Electromagn Biol Med 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/15368370500205464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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AbstractThe ability to respond to magnetic fields is ubiquitous among the five kingdoms of organisms. Apart from the mechanisms that are at work in bacterial magnetotaxis, none of the innumerable magnetobiological effects are as yet completely understood in terms of their underlying physical principles. Physical theories on magnetoreception, which draw on classical electrodynamics as well as on quantum electrodynamics, have greatly advanced during the past twenty years, and provide a basis for biological experimentation. This review places major emphasis on theories, and magnetobiological effects that occur in response to weak and moderate magnetic fields, and that are not related to magnetotaxis and magnetosomes. While knowledge relating to bacterial magnetotaxis has advanced considerably during the past 27 years, the biology of other magnetic effects has remained largely on a phenomenological level, a fact that is partly due to a lack of model organisms and model responses; and in great part also to the circumstance that the biological community at large takes little notice of the field, and in particular of the available physical theories. We review the known magnetobiological effects for bacteria, protists and fungi, and try to show how the variegated empirical material could be approached in the framework of the available physical models.
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Shen JF, Chao YL, Du L. Effects of static magnetic fields on the voltage-gated potassium channel currents in trigeminal root ganglion neurons. Neurosci Lett 2007; 415:164-8. [PMID: 17289262 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2006] [Revised: 01/06/2007] [Accepted: 01/08/2007] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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To evaluated the effects of moderate-intensity static magnetic fields (SMF) on two types of voltage-gated potassium channel (VGPC) currents: I(K,A) and I(K,V), whole-cell patch-clamp experiments were conducted on acute dissociated rat trigeminal root ganglion (TRG) neurons. The results demonstrated that 125 mT SMF could influence the inactivation kinetics of these two VGPC currents by altering the inactivation rate and velocity. No significant change was observed in the activation properties. These findings supported the hypothesis that biological membrane would be deformed in moderate-intensity SMF and the physiological characteristics of ion channels on the membrane would be influenced. The mechanism underlying the different effects of SMF on the I(K,A) and I(K,V) inactivation was also discussed.
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- Jie-Fei Shen
- Department of Prosthodontics, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, No. 14, Section 3, People's South Road, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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Petrov E, Martinac B. Modulation of channel activity and gadolinium block of MscL by static magnetic fields. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2006; 36:95-105. [PMID: 17089151 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-006-0109-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2006] [Revised: 09/18/2006] [Accepted: 10/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The magnetic field of the Earth has for long been known to influence the behaviour and orientation of a variety of living organisms. Experimental studies of the magnetic sense have, however, been impaired by the lack of a plausible cellular and/or molecular mechanism providing meaningful explanation for detection of magnetic fields by these organisms. Recently, mechanosensitive (MS) ion channels have been implied to play a role in magnetoreception. In this study we have investigated the effect of static magnetic fields (SMFs) of moderate intensity on the activity and gadolinium block of MscL, the bacterial MS channel of large conductance, which has served as a model channel to study the basic physical principles of mechanosensory transduction in living cells. In addition to showing that direct application of the magnetic field decreased the activity of the MscL channel, our study demonstrates for the first time that SMFs can reverse the effect of gadolinium, a well-known blocker of MS channels. The results of our study are consistent with a notion that (1) the effects of SMFs on the MscL channels may result from changes in physical properties of the lipid bilayer due to diamagnetic anisotropy of phospholipid molecules and consequently (2) cooperative superdiamagnetism of phospholipid molecules under influence of SMFs could cause displacement of Gd(3+) ions from the membrane bilayer and thus remove the MscL channel block.
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- Evgeny Petrov
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Carrubba S, Frilot C, Chesson AL, Marino AA. Evidence of a nonlinear human magnetic sense. Neuroscience 2006; 144:356-67. [PMID: 17069982 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2006] [Revised: 07/12/2006] [Accepted: 08/31/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Human subjects respond to low-intensity electric and magnetic fields. If the ability to do so were a form of sensory transduction, one would expect that fields could trigger evoked potentials, as do other sensory stimuli. We tested this hypothesis by examining electroencephalograms from 17 subjects for the presence of evoked potentials caused by the onset and by the offset of 2 G, 60 Hz (a field strength comparable to that in the general environment). Both linear (time averaging) and nonlinear (recurrence analysis) methods of data analysis were employed to permit an assessment of the dynamical nature of the stimulus/response relationship. Using the method of recurrence analysis, magnetosensory evoked potentials (MEPs) in the signals from occipital derivations were found in 16 of the subjects (P<0.05 for each subject). The potentials occurred 109-454 ms after stimulus application, depending on the subject, and were triggered by onset of the field, offset of the field, or both. Using the method of time averaging, no MEPs were detected. MEPs in the signals from the central and parietal electrodes were found in most subjects using recurrence analysis, but no MEPs were detected using time averaging. The occurrence of MEPs in response to a weak magnetic field suggested the existence of a human magnetic sense. In distinction to the evoked potentials ordinarily studied, MEPs were nonlinearly related to the stimulus as evidenced by the need to employ a nonlinear method to detect the responses.
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- S Carrubba
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 33932, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, USA
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Hughes S, El Haj AJ, Dobson J, Martinac B. The influence of static magnetic fields on mechanosensitive ion channel activity in artificial liposomes. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2005; 34:461-8. [PMID: 15959773 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-005-0484-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2004] [Revised: 03/25/2005] [Accepted: 04/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The influence of static magnetic fields (SMFs) on the activity of recombinant mechanosensitive ion channels (the bacterial mechanosensitive ion channel of large conductance-MscL) following reconstitution into artificial liposomes has been investigated. Preliminary findings suggest that exposure to 80-mT SMFs does not induce spontaneous MscL activation in the absence of mechanical stimulation. However, SMFs do appear to influence the open probability and single channel kinetics of MscL exposed to negative pipette pressure. Typical responses include an overall reduction in channel activity or an increased likelihood of channels becoming "trapped open" in sub-conducting states following exposure to SMFs. There is a delay in the onset of this effect and it is maintained throughout exposure. Generally, channel activity showed slow or limited recovery following removal of the magnetic field and responses to the magnetic were often reduced or abolished upon subsequent exposures. Pre-exposure of the liposomes to SMFs resulted in reduced sensitivity of MscL to negative pipette pressure, with higher pressures required to activate the channels. Although the mechanisms of this effect are not clear, our initial observations appear to support previous work showing that the effects of SMFs on ion channels may be mediated by changes in membrane properties due to anisotropic diamagnetism of lipid molecules.
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- Steven Hughes
- Medical Research Unit, Institute of Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Thornburrow Drive, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 7QB, UK.
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Macdonald AG, Martinac B. Effect of high hydrostatic pressure on the bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscS. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2005; 34:434-41. [PMID: 15834558 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-005-0478-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2004] [Revised: 02/23/2005] [Accepted: 02/28/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We have investigated the effect of high hydrostatic pressure on MscS, the bacterial mechanosensitive channel of small conductance. Pressure affected channel kinetics but not conductance. At negative pipette voltages (corresponding to membrane depolarization in the inside-out patch configuration used in our experiments) the channel exhibited a reversible reduction in activity with increasing hydrostatic pressure between 0 and 900 atm (90 MPa) at 23 degrees C. The reduced activity was characterized by a significant reduction in the channel opening probability resulting from a shortening of the channel openings with increasing pressure. Thus high hydrostatic pressure generally favoured channel closing. Cooling the patch by approximately 10 degrees C, intended to order the bilayer component of the patch by an amount similar to that caused by 50 MPa at 23 degrees C, had relatively little effect. This implies that pressure does not affect channel kinetics via bilayer order. Accordingly we postulate that lateral compression of the bilayer, under high hydrostatic pressure, is responsible. These observations also have implications for our understanding of the adaptation of mechanosensitive channels in deep-sea bacteria.
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- A G Macdonald
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK.
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Fuller M, Dobson J. On the significance of the time constants of magnetic field sensitivity in animals. Bioelectromagnetics 2005; 26:234-7. [PMID: 15768423 DOI: 10.1002/bem.20102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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A variety of organisms is known to have the ability to transduce and respond to relatively weak magnetic fields, including the earth's field. Though biogenic magnetite has been identified as the transducer in a number of cases with regards to geomagnetic field sensing, the mechanism underlying neurophysiological responses in human studies is not understood. Here we note that the time constants involved in this latter type of field sensitivity are much longer than those in organisms that make use of the earth's magnetic field for navigation. The purpose of this brief communication is to suggest that the time constants associated with magnetic field sensitivity may be a useful way to distinguish field sensitivity due to magnetite based receptors from sensitivity that may depend on direct (or downstream) biochemical processes.
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- Mike Fuller
- Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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