Magnetic field effects on assembly pattern of smooth muscle cells

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Animal

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 120-123

  Iwasaka, Masakazu ^a   Miyakoshi, Junji ^b   Ueno, Shoogo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell orientation; Colony; Diamagnetism; Magnetic field; Smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TORQUE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141789990     PISSN: 10712690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11626-003-0005-0     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Bras, W.; Diakun, G. P.; Diaz, J. F.; Maret, G.; Kramer, H.; Bordas, J.; Medrano, F. J. The susceptibility of pure tubulin to high magnetic fields: a magnetic birefringence and x-ray fiber diffraction study. Biophys. J. 74:1509-1521; 1998.
2. Higashi, T.; Yamagishi, A.; Takeuchi, T.; Kawaguchi, N.; Sagawa, S.; Onishi, S.; Date, M. Orientation of erythrocytes in a strong static magnetic field. Blood 82:1328-1334; 1993.
3. Murthy, N. S. Liquid crystallinity in collagen solutions and magnetic orientation of collagen fibrils. Biopolymers 23:1261-1267; 1984.
4. Torbet, J.; Dickens, M. J. Orientation of skeletal muscle actin in strong magnetic fields. FEBS Lett. 173:403-406; 1984.
5. Torbet, J.; Freyssinet, J. M.; Hudry-Clergeon, G. Oriented fibrin gels formed by polymerization in strong magnetic fields. Nature 289:91-93; 1981.
6. Torbet, J.; Ronziere, M. C. Magnetic alignment of collagen during self-assembly. Biochem. J. 219:1057-1059; 1984.
7. Tranquillo, R. T.; Girton, T. S.; Bromberek, B. A.; Triebes, T. G.; Mooradian, D. L. Magnetically orientated tissue-equivalent tubes: application to a circumferentially orientated media-equivalent. Biomaterials 17:349-357; 1996.
8. Ueno, S.; Iwasaka, M. Properties of diamagnetic fluid in high gradient magnetic fields. J. Appl. Phys. 75:7177-7179; 1994.
9. Umeno, A.; Kotani, H.; Iwasaka, M.; Ueno, S. Quantification of adherent cell orientation and morphology under strong magnetic fields. IEEE Trans. Magnetics 37:2909-2911; 2001.