The effects of weak extremely low frequency magnetic fields on calcium/calmodulin interactions

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2915-2923

  Hendee, Shonn P ^a   Faour, Fouad A ^a   Christensen, Douglas A ^a   Patrick, Bahareh ^b   Durney, Carl H ^a   Blumenthal, Donald K ^b,c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALMODULIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CYCLOTRON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0030025485     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79861-2     Document Type: Article

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