ReviewTheoretical biology & medical modelling2012
Electric fields generated by synchronized oscillations of microtubules, centrosomes and chromosomes regulate the dynamics of mitosis and meiosis.
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- Electromagnetic interactions in regulations of cell behaviors and morphogenesis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Effect of static magnetic field on DNA synthesis: The interplay between DNA chirality and magnetic field left-right asymmetry.FASEB bioAdvances · 2020Article
- Intense Pulsed Electric Fields Denature Urease Protein.Bioelectricity · 2020Article
- Bundles of Brain Microtubules Generate Electrical Oscillations.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- 27 T ultra-high static magnetic field changes orientation and morphology of mitotic spindles in human cells.eLife · 2017Article
- Long range physical cell-to-cell signalling via mitochondria inside membrane nanotubes: a hypothesis.Theoretical biology & medical modelling · 2016Review
- Electrical Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Microtubular Structures.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Engineering a 3D microfluidic culture platform for tumor-treating field application.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- An Overview of Biofield Devices.Global advances in health and medicine · 2015Article
- Biofield Physiology: A Framework for an Emerging Discipline.Global advances in health and medicine · 2015Review
- Biofield Science: Current Physics Perspectives.Global advances in health and medicine · 2015Article
- Biofield Science and Healing: History, Terminology, and Concepts.Global advances in health and medicine · 2015Article
- Life rhythm as a symphony of oscillatory patterns: electromagnetic energy and sound vibration modulates gene expression for biological signaling and healing.Global advances in health and medicine · 2014Review
- Electro-acoustic behavior of the mitotic spindle: a semi-classical coarse-grained model.PloS one · 2014Article
- Searching for electrical properties, phenomena and mechanisms in the construction and function of chromosomes.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2013Article
- Hypotheses relating to the function of the claustrum.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2012Article
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Abstract
Super-macromolecular complexes play many important roles in eukaryotic cells. Classical structural biological studies focus on their complicated molecular structures, physical interactions and biochemical modifications. Recent advances concerning intracellular electric fields generated by cell organelles and super-macromolecular complexes shed new light on the mechanisms that govern the dynamics of mitosis and meiosis. In this review we synthesize this knowledge to provide an integrated theoretical model of these cellular events. We suggest that the electric fields generated by synchronized oscillation of microtubules, centrosomes, and chromatin fibers facilitate several events during mitosis and meiosis, including centrosome trafficking, chromosome congression in mitosis and synapsis between homologous chromosomes in meiosis. These intracellular electric fields are generated under energy excitation through the synchronized electric oscillations of the dipolar structures of microtubules, centrosomes and chromosomes, three of the super-macromolecular complexes within an animal cell.
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