title: [Effect of weak and superweak magnetic fields on intensity and asexual reproduction of the planarian Dugesia tigrina].
abstract: It was shown that the exposure to combined weak and extraweak magnetic fields (permanent component 42 microT; variable component of an amplitude of 100 nT, frequency 1-60 Hz) increases the intensity of asexual propagation of planarians Dugesia tigrina. The effect of combined magnetic fields is most pronounced at frequencies of 1, 3.7, and 32 Hz. The presence of concomitant technogeneous fields (50 Hz, 30 nT) does not markedly influence the effects of weak magnetic fields with a small variable component. Upon realization of effects of weak magnetic fields, their both components are of great importance; the absence of one (permanent) component changes the sing of the effect to the opposite. The transfer of the effect to planarians through water pretreated with magnetic fields probably indicates that aqueous medium is involved in the realization of biological effects of weak magnetic fields.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290 Russia.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Novikov
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Sheĭman
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Fesenko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008280:Magnetics; D010932:Planarians / Q000502:physiology*; D012100:Reproduction, Asexual