Open Journal of Biophysics, 2014, 4, 112-118 Published Online October 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojbiphy http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojbiphy.2014.44013 How to cite this paper: Dotta, B.T., et al. (2014) Magnetic Field Configurations Corresponding to Electric Field Patterns That Evoke Long-Term Potentiation Shift Power Spectra of Light Emissions from Microtubules from Non-Neural Cells. Open Journal of Biophysics, 4, 112-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojbiphy.2014.44013 Magnetic Field Configurations Corresponding to Electric Field Patterns That Evoke Long-Term Potentiation Shift Power Spectra of Light Emissions from Microtubules from Non-Neural Cells Blake T. Dotta, David E. A. Vares, Carly A. Buckner, Robert M. Lafrenie, Michael A. Persinger Biomolecular Sciences and Behavioural Neuroscience Programs, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada Email: mpersinger@laurentian.ca Received 13 July 2014; revised 12 August 2014; accepted 11 September 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Photon counts were measured every 15 ms for 75 s from microtubule-enriched preparations (and nuclei) from mouse melanoma cells during baseline and after 2 min exposures to 1 μT magnetic fields. The magnetic fields were generated from a circular array of solenoids and presented with accelerating or decelerating rotation velocities. The range of photon radiant flux density was in the order of 10 −12 W·m −2 . Microtubules preparations that had been exposed for only 2 min to a magnetic field configuration corresponding to the electric field pattern that induced long-term potentiation in neural tissue when applied as electric current displayed peaks of spectral power densities within 7 - 8 Hz, 9.5 Hz, 14 - 15 Hz, and 22 Hz bands. The major peak (9.4 Hz) bandwidth was approximately 0.1 Hz. While microtubule preparations exposed for 2 min to a 7 Hz sine-wave or in the absence of a field emitted an overall similar level of spectral power density, the peaks in power density were not present. Treatment with the LTP patterned fields, compared to the base- line or sine-wave fields primarily altered the frequency band in which the amplitude of the photon field was expressed. These results suggest that the photon emissions from microtubule prepara- tions have the capacity to respond to specifically-patterned or geometric shapes of magnetic fields by altering spectral configurations rather than the absolute numbers of photons. Keywords Microtubules, Photon Emissions, Spectral Density Shifts, Physiologically-Patterned Magnetic Fields