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Page 6B/The Battalion/Thursday, April 7, 1983 Electricity, health linked? THURSOAY NIGHT High-voltage question under stud For the lady of the ’SO’s Male Dancer Night! Free champagne at 10 p.m. for the Ladies Doors open to the men at 10 p.m. *2 cover from X-8 p.m. *3 8-10 p.m. Dallas Night Club in the Deux Chene Complex Behind K-Mart, College Station 693-2818 United Press International SAN ANTONIO — In the early I970’s, workers at a power plant in the Soviet Union com plained that exposure to high- voltage power transmission lines caused fatigue and the loss of appetite and sexual vigor. Similar claims have been made in the United States, but to date, no scientific evidence sug gests that chronic health prob lems are caused by exposure to high-voltage lines. But Dr. Wendell Winters, an associate professor of microbiol ogy at the University of Texas Health Science Center, recently began a $125,000 study that may ultimately provide some answers. Using an array of new equip ment, some of it designed espe cially for this study, Winters plans to expose human and animal cells to a range of simu lated, high-voltage electric strengths, magnetic field strengths and combined electro magnetic strengths. The research will focus on whether changes take place in the body’s immune response cells following the controlled ex posures. “I had conducted (similar) re search before with less sophisti cated equipment with interest ing results,” Winters said. “It showed definitely some changes in the cell.” The study, which will take place during the next two years, includes injecting humans and dogs with harmless vaccine-like materials that create specific im mune responses in the body. Samples of the subject’s circu lating immune cells will be taken at prescribed intervals and ex posed to electric, magnetic and combined electromagnetic fields, simulating the close expo sure to high-voltage lines. /ill be lookin 15 related studies funded by the New York State Department of Health. ‘We will be looking for data to substantiate or disprove the hypothesis that significant biolo gical changes take place follow ing exposure to the fields,” Win ters said. “If we find laboratory proof that the functions of immune re sponse cells are compromised, it could mean that comparable ex posure at the cell level in hu mans and animals could result in similar compromises in immune cell function,” he said. Winters said the study was un ique, representing the first time that the effects of simultaneous exposure to both electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields will be measured. The $125,000 study is one of The studies were authorized following a series of hearings on a New York utility company’s application for the construction of a high-voltage power line. Although the company was granted permission to build the line, the state recommended that it carry only lower voltage until the potential health ef f ects could be studied. According to Dr. Patrick Reil ly of The Johns Hopkins Uni versity in Baltimore, evidence exists that under some condi tions, humans can experience short-term heatlh problems, de pending on the type of expo sure. Reilly, who has conducted power line transmission studies. cited the annoyance of “cj sparks” as an example But he said claims oflj term chronic effects, suchai fatige and loss of appetite] sexual drive reported b) Russians, present a majot search question. Winters refused to speed on the outcome of his reset!; although he said thereisapi bility that the effects m ' gest a capacity for incret rat her t ban decreased immii in cells exposed to electric fields. magnetic A lf( He said the results willk particular importance torn I pie who live in areas when li mited space makes it necess |q| for utility companies tob™ high -voltage wires down) utility grids directly intop lated areas. Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. MSC . Each Daily Special Only $2.39 Plus Tax. ^.Cafeteria “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisoury Steak with Mushroom Gravy I Whipped Potatoes ; Your Choice of ] One Vegetable Roll or. 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