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The indiscriminate use of mobile communications technology has given rise to a quarrel about possible effects on the population health. The transmembrane ionic channels have been considered as a crucial site of electromagnetic (EM) fields interaction with the exposed living tissue. An overview in the literature was made and a membrane channel model was simulated. The model response to sinusoidal EM field in the ELF range, for a voltage-dependent channel, was analyzed and variations at around 10 % in the open probability have been observed. This study is important to evaluate hereafter the possible impacts due to the use of new technologies.
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Uchôa, D.C., de Assis, F.M., Tejo, F.A.F. (2004). Markov Chain Simulation of Biological Effects on Nerve Cells Ionic Channels Due to Electromagnetic Fields Used in Communication Systems. In: de Souza, J.N., Dini, P., Lorenz, P. (eds) Telecommunications and Networking - ICT 2004. ICT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27824-5_133
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