Influence of Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on the Swimming Behavior of Ciliates

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 491-498

  Hemmersbach, Ruth ^a   Becker, Esther ^b   Stockem, Wilhelm ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ion channels; Loxodes; Paramecium; Pawn mutant; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY;

EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ION CHANNEL; LOXODE; MODELLING SYSTEMS; PARAMECIUM; PAWN MUTANT; SWIMMING BEHAVIOURS; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

CILIOPHORA; LOXODES; LOXODES STRIATUS; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM BIAURELIA; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CILIOPHORA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0030634634     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(1997)18:7<491::AID-BEM4>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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