Aligning Paramecium caudatum with static magnetic fields

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3004-3011

  Guevorkian, Karine ^a   Valles Jr , James M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMOBILIZED CELL; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWIMMING;

PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM;

EID: 33646167174     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.071704     Document Type: Article

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