Reference database and calculations for "Bioelectrical Parameters of Living Systems": 210 verified sources with species, findings and a crosswalk to the manuscript

Abstract

Dataset. The verified reference database and calculation script behind the narrative review Bioelectrical Parameters of Living Systems (Rohera, 2026). Three manuscripts by the same author draw on this database: the narrative review named above (concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22829923), a companion review of the electrical properties of human tissues and cells, and a companion review of voltage, current and frequency in therapeutic electrical stimulation. Each undertakes, in its Availability-of-data statement, to deposit this database and link it from the manuscript record. From version 1.2 this deposit discharges that undertaking for all three. Version 1.1 discharged it only for the first, and said otherwise. Contents references_verified_v1.2.csv — 210 records: author, year, title, journal, volume, pages, PMID, DOI, study type, species or preparation, key finding, and how each source is used in the manuscripts. codebook.md — what every column means, including the two different verification levels. search_log.md — databases, dates, approach, and the stated limits of the search. worked_example_dosimetry.py — reproduces the idealised calculation in Section 5.2, with the four limitations the manuscript states written into the file. README.md — orientation and citation. A crosswalk, so any citation can be checked The column paper1_ref_number maps each record to its numbered reference in the manuscript. 141 of 210 records carry one. Of the 69 records that carry no Paper 1 reference number, 35 (prefixes K, L and M01-M09) were compiled for the companion manuscripts Papers 2 and 6 and are cited there; they were absent from version 1.1 of this deposit, which is the reason for version 1.2. 34 records are background — read and verified during the work but not cited in the final text; they are kept rather than deleted, because a reference database that shows only what survived into the paper hides the selection. Four manuscript references have no indexed row because they are a book, two IEC standards and a guideline. Verification level — read before relying on a value Bibliographic details were checked against the PubMed or Crossref record for every entry that has one. Five records are indexed in neither and carry no PMID and no DOI: A11 (Hille, Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes, a book), F13 and F14 (IEC 60601-1 and IEC 60601-2-10, standards), I16 (the ICMJE Recommendations) and I17 (the COPE guidelines). For these five, bibliographic details were checked against the publisher's or issuing body's own listing, and no claim of indexed verification is made for them. Content verification is a weaker claim: each quantitative value and each characterisation of a finding was checked at the level of the abstract, and at full text only where the full text was openly accessible. It was not checked against the full text of paywalled sources. The manuscript carries an explicit pre-submission condition that the author read those sources in full, and that condition is not yet discharged. What changed in version 1.2, and a corrected search log Thirty-five records were added: K01-K21 and L01-L05, compiled for the companion review of voltage, current and frequency in therapeutic electrical stimulation, and M01-M09, compiled for the companion review of the electrical properties of human tissues and cells. Version 1.1 was deposited as the reference database behind those manuscripts; for two of them that was not true, because their sources had no rows here. This version makes it true rather than narrowing the claim. No record was removed and no record was altered. The added records have not been through an adversarial omission review of the kind described below, and no equivalent audit has been carried out for them. Records M10 (Burkhardt et al., DepressionDC, Lancet 2023) and M11 (Stupp et al., EF-11, Eur J Cancer 2012) were added in manuscript version 1.2. Both are trials whose results are unfavourable to electrical stimulation, and both had been omitted. An internal adversarial review found seven such omissions, all running in the same direction — toward making the author's commercial field look better founded and safer than its sources say. Version 1.0 of the search log claimed that "null and contrary findings were sought deliberately for each electrotherapy area". That claim did not hold, and the log now says so in place of the claim, rather than being quietly amended. Competing interests The compiler is the founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Rohera Healthcare & Technology Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India, which develops a bioelectronic device, and is the named inventor and holder of granted patents relating to it. This work received no external funding; it was self-funded, which is declared as a competing interest rather than as the absence of one: no external sponsor, grant reviewer or independent body reviewed, constrained or verified it. No data from the device appear in this database, and no claim about the device is made. Use of AI-assisted tools Searching, bibliographic verification against indexed records, and compilation were carried out with the assistance of a large language model (Claude, Anthropic) under the author's direction. The author takes full responsibility. No AI tool is an author.