PULSED MAGNETIC FIELD IMPACT ON LIVING CELLS CONTAINING BIOGENIC MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES

  • MICLAUS SIMONA
    „Nicolae Balcescu” Land Forces Academy, Sibiu, Romania
  • BARBU-TUDORAN LUCIAN
    National Institute R&D for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • MOISESCU CRISTINA
    Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
  • BECHET PAUL
    „Nicolae Balcescu” Land Forces Academy, Sibiu, Romania
  • DARABANT LAURA
    Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract

Intense pulsed magnetic fields with frequency components in the kHz-MHz
range, produced by a transcranial magnetic stimulation applicator were delivered to samples
containing magnetotactic bacteria cells with the aim of observing changes of cellular
appearance by scanning-transmission electron microscopy. Cellular integrity was affected
in a manner dependent on the magnetic stimulus parameters.

Cuvinte cheie

pulsed magnetic field transranial magnetic stimulator magnetosomes cell integrity membrane damage.