Extremely low frequency magnetic fields affect transposition activity in Escherichia coli

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-118

  Del Re, B ^a   Garoia, F ^a   Mesirca, P ^a   Agostini, C ^a   Bersani, F ^a   Giorgi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT SHOCK; LACZ GENE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; STRESS; TRANSPOSON; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL CYCLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COLOR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LAC OPERON; PLASMIDS; SOFTWARE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0042431840     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-003-0192-9     Document Type: Article

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