Applied DC Magnetic Fields Cause Alterations in the Time of Cell Divisions and Developmental Abnormalities in Early Sea Urchin Embryos

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-263

  Levin, Michael ^a,b   Ernst, Susan G ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Gastrulation; Mitotic cycle; Sea urchin; Static magnetic field; Teratogenic effects

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; MAMMALS; SHELLFISH;

CELL DIVISIONS; DC MAGNETIC FIELD; DEVELOPMENT; EXOGASTRULATION; GASTRULATION; MITOTIC CYCLES; SEA URCHIN EMBRYOS; SEA-URCHIN; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; TERATOGENIC EFFECT;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; KINETICS; MALE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEA URCHIN; TIME;

ABNORMALITIES, RADIATION-INDUCED; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; KINETICS; MALE; SEA URCHINS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030630419     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(1997)18:3<255::AID-BEM9>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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