158 Electromagnetic Fields in Biology and Medicine
10.4 EMF EFFECTS ON IMMUNE CELLS
While it is now recognized that macrophages, dendritic cells, and granulocytes are essential for
defense against invading pathogens, as well as protection from developing cancer cells (Gabrilovich
et al. 2012), our ability to translate this knowledge into therapeutic benets remains limited. We are
only now beginning to appreciate the tight integration that exists between tissue metabolism and
immune function (Osborn and Olefsky 2012), how cytokines like IL-10 might be used against infec-
tion (Ouyang et al. 2011), or how immunotherapies might be used to treat cancer (Pardoll 2012).
Most efforts at regulating the immune system for therapeutic benet have expl ...