Effect of homogeneous magnetic fields on responses to toxic stimulation in spirostomum ambiguum
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Bioelectromagnetics
- Vol. 2 (2) , 187-198
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.2250020209
Abstract
Effects of DC magnetic fields, up to 125,000 G, on the survival of the ciliated protozoan Spirostomum ambiguum exposed to the toxic substance 2,2′-dipyridyldisulfide are reported. The magnetic field diminishes the ability of the organism to survive the drug, and lengthens the extension phase of the contraction cycle. It is proposed that the magnetic field alters the regulation of intracellular (C2+) transients.Keywords
This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
- Influence of the magnetic fields on frog sciatic nerveBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 1979
- Ca2+ binding, ATP-dependent Ca2+ transport, and total tissue Ca2+ in embryonic and adult avian dystrophic pectoralisThe Journal of Membrane Biology, 1978
- Metabolically regulated cyclical contractures in microinjectedSpirostomum: A pharmacological studyCellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 1976
- Contractlity in Spirostomum provides for nonelectrogenic calcium regulation through energy-dissipative metabolic processes in the absence of membrane excitabilityNature, 1974
- The influence of a strong magnetic field on muscular contractionRadiation and Environmental Biophysics, 1974
- ELEMENTARY PROCESSES IN THE HYDROLYSIS OF ATP BY SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM MEMBRANES*Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1974
- The structural elements responsible for contraction in the ciliateSpirostomumProtoplasma, 1971
- Control of Contractility in Spirostomum by Dissociated Calcium IonsThe Journal of general physiology, 1970
- Some studies on the biological effects of magnetic fieldsIEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1970
- Contraction of protoplasm. I. Cinematographic analysis of the anodally stimulated contraction of spirostomum ambiguumJournal of Cellular Physiology, 1966