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The parameters of the low-frequency (1, 4.4, 16.5 Hz or the sum of these frequencies) extremely weak (300, 100, 150–300 nT, according to frequencies) alternating component of combined magnetic fields have been found, which in combination with a weak collinear static field of 42 μT (the induction corresponds to the range of the geomagnetic field) has a marked antitumor activity. The exposure to these magnetic fields inhibits the tumor growth in mice with an intraperitoneally transplanted Ehrlich ascites carcinoma. The effect manifests itself as an increase in the life of tumor-bearing animals and in the content of damaged tumor cells. It was found that the death of tumor cells by the action of weak fields occurs predominantly by the mechanism of necrosis.
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Original Russian Text © G.V. Novikov, V.V. Novikov, E.E. Fesenko, 2009, published in Biofizika, 2009, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1120–1127.
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Novikov, G.V., Novikov, V.V. & Fesenko, E.E. Effect of weak combined static and low-frequency alternating magnetic fields on the Ehrlich ascites carcinoma in mice. BIOPHYSICS 54, 741–747 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350909060141
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