Effects of millimeter wave irradiation and equivalent thermal heating on the activity of individual neurons in the leech ganglion

" However, narrowing of the action potential half-width was 5 times more pronounced compared with that during equivalent bath heating. more dramatic difference was noted in the firing rate, which was suppressed at all applied MMW power densities and increased in a dose-dependent manner during gradual bath heating. The mechanism of enhanced narrowing of action potentials and suppressed firing by MMW irradiation, compared with that by gradual bath heating, is hypothesized to involve specific coupling of MMW energy with the neuronal plasma membrane."

{Credits 1} 🎪 Romanenko, S., Siegel, P. H., Wagenaar, D. A., & Pikov, V. (2014). Effects of millimeter wave irradiation and equivalent thermal heating on the activity of individual neurons in the leech ganglion. Journal of neurophysiology, 112(10), 2423-2431. © 2014 the American Physiological Society. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.