| Revision as of 18:39, 3 December 2010 editAlansohn (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers504,782 editsm Reverted edits by Mayiprad (talk) to last revision by Some jerk on the Internet (HG)← Previous edit | Latest revision as of 09:23, 23 July 2019 edit undoNarky Blert (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Page movers417,472 edits +1 reason tag | ||
| (13 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| ⚫ | #REDIRECT ] | ||
| {{Infobox Book | |||
| | name = The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life | |||
| | title_orig = | |||
| | translator = | |||
| | image = | |||
| | image_caption = | |||
| | author = ] and ] | |||
| | illustrator = | |||
| | cover_artist = | |||
| | country = | |||
| | language = English | |||
| | series = | |||
| | subject = | |||
| | genre = | |||
| | publisher = Harper Paperbacks | |||
| | release_date = August 5, 1998 (paperback) | |||
| | english_release_date = | |||
| | media_type = Paperback | |||
| | pages = 368 | |||
| | isbn = 0-688-06971-1 | |||
| | dewey= 591.19/127 19 | |||
| | congress= QP82.2.E43 B4 1985 | |||
| | oclc= 14273458 | |||
| | preceded_by = | |||
| | followed_by = | |||
| }} | |||
| {{R from merge}} | |||
| :''This article is about a book on ]. A book on ] by ] has a similar title. See ] for further meanings.'' | |||
| {{R ambig}} | |||
| '''''The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life''''' is a book by ] and Gary Selden in which Becker, an orthopedic surgeon at the time working for the ], describes his research into "our bioelectric selves".<ref>{{cite web | last=Howe | first=LM | title=British Cell Phone Safety Alert and An Interview with Robert O. Becker, M. D. | publisher=Council on Wireless Technology Impacts | date=2000-05-15 | url=http://www.energyfields.org/science/becker.html | accessdate=2009-02-09 }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> | |||
| A ] search gives 91 listings for Becker RO in ] scientific journals, 33 as first author (including several in the journals '']'' and ''])''. ''The Body Electric'' is largely a summary of this work. Becker set out to examine why normal bones heal, and then explore the reasons why bones fail to heal properly. His experiments were mostly with ]s and ]s, and his scope was widened to studying ] after ]s such as limb ]. He suspected that ]s played an important role for controlling the regeneration process, and therefore mapped the ]s at various body parts during the regeneration. | |||
| This mapping showed that the central parts of the body normally was positive, and the limbs negative. When a limb of a salamander or frog was amputated, the voltage at the cut changed from about -10 mV (]s) to +20 mV or more the next day—a phenomenon called ''the current of injury''. In a frog, the voltage would simply change to the normal negative level in four weeks or so, and no limb regeneration would take place. In a salamander, however, the voltage would during the first two weeks change from the +20 mV to -30 mV, and then normalize (to -10 mV) during the next two weeks—and the limb would be regenerated. | |||
| Becker regarded these voltage changes as very important, both as an indicator of the regeneration process, and as an indication of the factors needed for improving regeneration. The electric field changes turned out to be caused by currents in the nerves, and the limb regeneration occurred from ]s, which first ]d into unspecialized cells, and then ]d into the new cells needed. | |||
| Becker later observed several interesting properties of bones and bone growth, proposing that bones are ]s and ] in nature. These tie into the healing process by electrically stimulating ] to differentiate into a form of adult ] which regrew the bone from within by ]. By applying external electrical stimulation in the proper form, he was able to induce bone healing in patients whose bones had failed to heal together. | |||
| Later in his research, observing from prior research that ] had been used as an antibacterial material in the past, he used a combination therapy of silver with electrical stimulation (used in this case primarily for ] -- to drive silver ions further into tissue to enhance its antibacterial action) and observed the desired antibacterial effect. Also observed was that with proper stimulation ] would dedifferentiate and apparently became able to form new cell types, leading to the possibility of wider uses for ] in humans and other animals. | |||
| From ''The Body Electric''; "the ('positive silver') technique makes it possible to produce large numbers of dedifferentiated cells, overcoming the main problem of mammalian ] - the limited number of bone marrow cells that dedifferentiate in response to electrical current alone. Whatever its precise mode of action may be, the electrically generated silver ion can produce enough cells for human blastemas; it has restored my belief that full ] of limbs, and perhaps other body parts, can be accomplished in humans." | |||
| Later in the book he explores his concerns with deleterious effects of ] on living organisms. | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| ==Sources== | |||
| * ''The Body Electric. Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life'', by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden. Morrow, New York 1985, ISBN 0-688-06971-1 | |||
| Corroborative sources: The papers listed in the article ]. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| ⚫ | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
Latest revision as of 09:23, 23 July 2019
Redirect to:
- From a merge: This is a redirect from a page that was merged into another page. This redirect was kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the target page. Please do not remove the tag that generates this text (unless the need to recreate content on this page has been demonstrated) or delete this page.
- For redirects with substantive page histories that did not result from page merges use {{R with history}} instead.
- From an ambiguous term: This is a redirect from an ambiguous page name to a page or list that disambiguates it. These redirects are pointed to by links that should always be disambiguated. Therefore, this template should never appear on a page that has "(disambiguation)" in its title – in that case use {{R to disambiguation page}} instead.