PMID- 31392878 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190815 LR - 20190815 IS - 0393-974X (Print) IS - 0393-974X (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 4 DP - 2019 Jul-Aug TI - Microglia M1/M2 polarization contributes to electromagnetic pulse-induced brain injury. PG - 1051-1062 AB - The development of electronic technology has attracted attention on the biological effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP). It remains controversial whether EMP irradiation is neurotoxic or beneficial for recovery from injuryies such as cerebral ischemia. Microglia is innate immune cells in the brain, exhibiting either neurotoxicity or neuroprotection effect during various central nervous system diseases, depending on their activation into a classical (M1) or alternative (M2) phenotype, respectively. The Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4), myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) and nuclear factor kappa B (NFkappaB) pathway is important for microglia activation. In this study, we investigated the effect of EMP on neuronal apoptosis and microglia polarization in vivo and in vitro, using an EMP of 400 kV/m and 1 hertz for 200 pulses. Short EMP irradiation (