Development of chick embryos exposed to 20mT magnetic fields

ABSTRACT

There is an increasing interest in the use and practice of magnetic devices in clinical alternative medicine, research and industry. In this work, the development of red blood cells [RBCs] of chick embryos exposed to 20,000 micro T alternating pole magnet was investigated. It was noticed that RBCs of the embryos that have been exposed for 5 days exhibited marked deformations especially their membranes and the whole morphology. However, RBCs of the embryos which had been exposed to the applied magnetic fields for 5, 10, 15 - days and those that directly hatched, did not show clear changes in blood films photographed, but the result of osmotic fragility of RBCs of the embryos which directly hatched have shown changes in the membrane permeability. It was suggested that RBCs have more tolerance during the development stages. This has been concluded from the facts that the RBCs did not exhibit any changes in the shape, even though in reality there are changes in the membrane permeability. One can infer that changes have occurred in the membrane, even though they have not been revealed physically in the blood photographs