Observation of magnetoreceptive behavior in a multicellular magnetotactic prokaryote in higher than geomagnetic fields

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1496-1499

  Greenberg, Michael ^a,b   Canter, Karl ^a   Mahler, Inga ^a   Tornheim, Adam ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BIOMAGNETISM; CELL MOTILITY; DECELERATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTACTIC MULTICELLULAR PROKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; TORQUE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IONIZING RADIATION; METABOLISM; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE;

PROKARYOTA;

FERRIC ION;

BACKGROUND RADIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; RADIATION DOSAGE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 21244455153     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.047068     Document Type: Article

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