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Vesicle biomechanics in a time-varying magnetic field

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Title
Vesicle biomechanics in a time-varying magnetic field
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BMC Biophysics, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13628-014-0016-0
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Hui Ye, Austen Curcuru

Abstract

Cells exhibit distortion when exposed to a strong electric field, suggesting that the field imposes control over cellular biomechanics. Closed pure lipid bilayer membranes (vesicles) have been widely used for the experimental and theoretical studies of cellular biomechanics under this electrodeformation. An alternative method used to generate an electric field is by electromagnetic induction with a time-varying magnetic field. References reporting the magnetic control of cellular mechanics have recently emerged. However, theoretical analysis of the cellular mechanics under a time-varying magnetic field is inadequate. We developed an analytical theory to investigate the biomechanics of a modeled vesicle under a time-varying magnetic field. Following previous publications and to simplify the calculation, this model treated the inner and suspending media as lossy dielectrics, the membrane thickness set at zero, and the electric resistance of the membrane assumed to be negligible. This work provided the first analytical solutions for the surface charges, electric field, radial pressure, overall translational forces, and rotational torques introduced on a vesicle by the time-varying magnetic field. Frequency responses of these measures were analyzed, particularly the frequency used clinically by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

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Unknown 27 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 19%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 7%
Student > Master 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 6 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 4 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 11%
Engineering 3 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 10 37%
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