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Hello musicgirl.

I recall that there was a feature in New Scientist in the 1990s that
outlined a mobile phone set-up
with an earth wire and a ferrite weight etc that had been
specifically designed to negate MW field irradiation
involved in the use of.

I will have to trawl through my cuttings on EM-related aspects to
find it. You could instead try searching
New Scientist articles via the 'net.

Regards, Albert.
On 23 Nov 2009, at 07:43, musicgirl1993@... wrote:

> I have to be on the cell phone a lot for my work. I don't want to
> get brain
> cancer of course and it scares me what I read. I've read some things
> saying blue tooth is safer to use than not too. Does anyone know
> anything to
> help prevent it? Also I have to be on cordless phone a lot and have
> had that
> at work for 20 years...thanks Kim
>
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>
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  cancer of course and it scares me what I read. I've read some things
saying blue  tooth is safer to use than not too. Does anyone know anything to
help prevent  it?  Also I have to be on cordless phone a lot and have had  that
at work for 20 years...thanks  Kim


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Fredrik Soderqvist is a young researcher at Ørebro University in
Sweden who has just defended his doctoral dissertation on the effect of
mobile phone radiation on the brain.

To the Danish press, Soderqvist explains: "the increased concentration
of transtyretin we have found indicates that the brain is affected by
microwaves from mobile phones." The research shows a connection between
concentration of the protein transtyretin in the bloodstream--people who
talk often on mobile phones have a higher concentration than those who
do not...

Transtyretin is formed in the liver and helps transport A-vitamin around
the body, and also plays an important role in nervous diseases such as
Alzheimers.

Reference og links
Mobile and cordless telephones, serum transthyretin and the
blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier: a cross-sectional study.
Environmental Health 2009, 8:19doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-19
<http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/1/19>


Scott Hill
frontier sciences group
Copenhagen

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ffect-the-brain#disqus_thread>      Cellphones and other cordless
telephones have a biological effect on the brain, according to research
from Sweden's Örebro University.

It's still too early to say if any health risks are involved, but those
cautious Swedes are recommending that people, especially children,
should use headsets.

   [Cellphones affect the brain] "Children may be more sensitive than
adults to radiation from wireless phones," says Örebro
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researcher Fredrik Söderqvist.

Söderqvist examined the use of wireless telephones among children and
adolescents, and asked adolescents themselves whether they thought it
was giving them health problems.

He then went on to study blood samples from adults, looking at a protein
that exists in the blood-cerebrospinal-fluid barrier, which is part of
the brain's protection against outside influences.

The study revealed an association between use of wireless telephony and
increased content of the protein transthyretin in the blood.

Söderqvist stresses that the increase needn't in itself be a cause of
concern. But since it indicates that the brain is in fact affected by
microwaves from wireless telephones, he says, there may be other - as
yet unknown - effects that may impact our health.

"We should all follow the recommendations of the Radiation Safety
Authority when it comes to using headsets and avoiding mobile phone use
when the coverage is poor," he says.

Children and adolescents who regularly use wireless telephones  reported
more health symptoms and graded their well-being lower than those who do
not use them regularly.

"The connection was strongest regarding headaches, asthmatic complaints,
and impaired concentration," says Söderqvist. "But more research is
needed to exclude the effects of other factors and sources of error,
even though it is difficult to see how this connection could be fully
explained by such factors."

Mobilen påvirker din hjerne 13. november 2009 kl. 11:20 En ny svensk
undersøgelse viser, at mobilens mikrobølger har en effekt på
hjernen. Om det er godt eller skidt, siger undersøgelsen dog ikke
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[Mikrobølger fra din telefon påvirker hjernen, dokumenterer en ny
svensk undersøgelse, som også viser, at især børn oplever
gener i forbindelse med mobilsnak. (Foto: Colourbox) ]
Mikrobølger fra din telefon påvirker hjernen, dokumenterer en ny
svensk undersøgelse, som også viser, at især børn oplever
gener i forbindelse med mobilsnak. (Foto: Colourbox)

Danske forskere har hidtil frikendt mobilen fra at skade hjernen. Og
producenter af mobiltelefoner kan pege på cirka 30 undersøgelser,
som viser, at mobilen slet ikke er farlig. Resultaterne fra den
internationale forskning er dog mere brogede end det, og flere nye
undersøgelser viser, at mobilen har en effekt på hjernen.


Den svenske ph.d. studerende ved Örebro Universitet Fredrik
Söderquist har fundet beviser på, at brug af mobil rent faktisk
øger niveauet af proteinet transthyretin i den væskebarriere, som
beskytter hjernen mod ydre påvirkninger. Men om forandringerne tyder
på noget godt eller skidt, kan han ikke sige noget om.

Forøgelsen af transthyretin er i sig selv ikke nødvendigvis et
problem, men det viser, at hjernen kan blive påvirket af
mobiltelefonens mikrobølger på hidtil helt ukendte måder, siger
forskeren i en pressemeddelelse.

Som en del af Fredrik Söderquists undersøgelser har han også
studeret, hvilke gener børn og unge oplever, de har i forbindelse med
brug af mobiltelefon.

»Koblingen var stærkest for hovedpine, astmatisk besvær og
koncentrationsvanskeligheder. Men der kræves mere forskning for at
udelukke, at andre faktorer har spillet ind,« siger Fredrik
Söderquist.
Lang og kortsigtet effekt
I undersøgelsen blev et tilfældigt udvalgte voksne udspurgt om
deres telefonvaner. Spørgsmålene gik på, hvor længe og hvor
ofte de talte i mobiltelefonen. Herefter analyserede forskerne deres
svar. De efterfølgende blodprøver viste, at de ivrige
mobilsnakkere havde et højt indhold af transthyretin i hjernens
såkaldte blodcerebrospinale væskebarriere.
Fredrik Söderquist undersøgte også, hvad der skete med niveauet
af proteinet hos en gruppe personer, som de lod tale i mobiltelefon i 30
minutter. Forskerne målte transthyretin-niveauet både før og
efter, og her fandt de en umiddelbar forøgelse.


Der er således både en langsigtet og kortsigtet effekt af at
snakke meget i mobil.

Söderquist siger til forskning.no, at hans resultater viser, at
mobilbrugere bør anvende høretelefoner og andet håndfrit udstyr
oftere, end de gør nu.

Det er et råd, som verdenssundhedsorganisationen WHO sandsynligvis er
enig i. Ifølge LiveScience offentliggør WHO senere på året
en videnskabelig undersøgelse, som viser, at mikrobølgerne fra
mobilen forøger risikoen for at få en svulst i hjernen.

Reference og links

Mobile and cordless telephones, serum transthyretin and the
blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier: a cross-sectional study.
Environmental Health 2009, 8:19doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-19
<http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/1/19>



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<http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/cgi/explore.cgi?pdbId=5ttr>    Identifiers
Symbols <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUGO>  TTR
<http://www.genenames.org/data/hgnc_data.php?hgnc_id=12405> ; HsT2651;
PALB; TBPA   External IDs OMIM
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_Inheritance_in_Man> : 176300
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=176300>  MGI
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Genome_Informatics> : 98865
<http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/accession_report.cgi?id=MGI:988\
65>  HomoloGene <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomoloGene> : 317
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=homologen\
e&dopt=HomoloGene&list_uids=317>       [show]Gene ontology
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_ontology>    Molecular function •
hormone activity
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0005179>
• steroid binding
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0005496>
• thyroid hormone transmembrane transporter activity
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0015349>
• retinal binding
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0016918>
• retinol binding
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0019841>
Cellular component • extracellular region
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0005576>
Biological process • thyroid hormone generation
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0006590>
• transport
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_\
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0006810>
RNA expression pattern    [PBB GE TTR 209660 at tn.png]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PBB_GE_TTR_209660_at_tn.png>    More
reference expression data <http://biogps.gnf.org/gene/7276/>
Orthologs   Species Human Mouse   Entrez
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrez>  7276
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene&cmd=retrieve&dopt\
=default&list_uids=7276&rn=1>  22139
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene&cmd=retrieve&dopt\
=default&list_uids=22139&rn=1>    Ensembl
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensembl>  ENSG00000118271
<http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/geneview?gene=ENSG00000118271;db=co\
re>  ENSMUSG00000061808
<http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/geneview?gene=ENSMUSG00000061808;db\
=core>    UniProt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniProt>  P02766
<http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P02766>  Q5M9K1
<http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q5M9K1>    RefSeq NM_000371
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=NM_000371>  (mRNA)
NM_013697 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=NM_013697>
(mRNA)   NP_000362
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=NP_000362>
(protein) NP_038725
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=NP_038725>
(protein)   Location Chr 18:
27.43 - 27.43 Mb
<http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=Human&db=hg18&position=chr1\
8:27425838-27432793>  Chr 18:
20.81 - 20.82 Mb
<http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=Mouse&db=mm8&position=chr18\
:20808423-20817331>    PubMed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed>
search [1]
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Link&LinkName=gene\
_pubmed&from_uid=7276>  [2]
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Link&LinkName=gene\
_pubmed&from_uid=22139>

Transthyretin (TTR) is a serum
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_plasma>  and cerebrospinal fluid
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal_fluid>  carrier of the
thyroid hormone thyroxine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroxine>  (T4)
and retinol. This is how transthyretin gained its name, transports
thyroxine and retinol.

TTR was originally called prealbumin[1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#cite_note-0>  because it ran
faster than albumins <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albumins>  on
electrophoresis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophoresis>  gels.
Contents  [hide]
     * 1 Binding affinities
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#Binding_affinities>
     * 2 Structure <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#Structure>
     * 3 Role in disease
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#Role_in_disease>
     * 4 Nutritional Assessment
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#Nutritional_Assessment>
     * 5 Interactions
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#Interactions>
     * 6 References
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#References>
     * 7 Further reading
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transthyretin#Further_reading>
[edit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transthyretin&action=edit&sec\
tion=1> ] Binding affinities
It functions in concert with two other thyroid hormone binding proteins
in the serum:
Protein Binding strength Plasma concentration   thyroxine-binding
globulin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroxine-binding_globulin>
(TBG) highest lowest   transthyretin (TTR) lower higher   albumins
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albumins>  poorest much higher
In cerebrospinal fluid it is the primary carrier of T4, as albumin is
not present. TTR also acts as a carrier of retinol
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinol>  (vitamin A) through an
association with retinol binding protein
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinol_binding_protein>  (RBP).

Numerous other small molecules are known to bind in the thyroxine
binding sites, including many natural products (such as resveratrol
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol> ), drugs (diflunisal
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diflunisal> , flufenamic acid
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flufenamic_acid> ), and toxins (PCB
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl> ). Since TTR
binds promiscuously to many aromatic compounds
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic_compounds> , and generally does
not bind T4 in serum, there is speculation that TTR's "true function" is
to generally sweep up toxic and foreign compounds in the blood stream.
[edit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transthyretin&action=edit&sec\
tion=2> ] Structure
TTR is a 55-kDa homotetramer with a dimer of dimers configuration that
is synthesized in the liver <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver> ,
choroid plexus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choroid_plexus>  and
retinal pigment epithelium
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinal_pigment_epithelium> . Each monomer
is a 127-residue polypeptide <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypeptide>
rich in beta sheet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_sheet>  structure.
Association of two monomers forms an extended beta sandwich. Further
association of another identical set of monomers produces the
homotetrameric structure. The two thyroxine
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroxine>  binding sites per tetramer sit
at the interface between the latter set of dimers.



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