Biophysical Effects of Steady Magnetic Fields - Proceedings of the Workshop, Les Houches, France February 26-March 5, 1986 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)

7 Les Houches The purpose of this workshop was to bring together, for the first time, active scientists from very different fields, such as physics, chemistry, physiology and the behavioural sciences, all having a common interest: The interac tion of static magnetic fields with biological and macromolecular matter. As physicists, biologists and medical scientists naturally have different scientific competences, attitudes and abilities, this appeared to be an enterprise of un certain issue. However, it turned out that all participants tried to find (and many succeeded in reaching) a mutual basis of understanding. Thanks to a fair number of outstanding, comprehensive talks and to very active discus sions, most of us, we believe, have substantially enlarged our insight into the actual hard facts within a research area that was considered for a long time - and still remains in many aspects - somewhat controversial. The perhaps most striking and useful reaction to magnetic fields at the supermolecular level is the alignment of biopolymers, proteins, viruses, large assemblies such as retinal rods and membranes when suspended in a solvent, usually water. The ease of alignment depends on the anisotropy of the dia magnetic susceptibility of the constituent groups and bonds and, in addition, on the extent of their mutual orientational order inside a macromolecular assembly. Here very strong fields above I-lOT appear to be necessary, in general, to achieve measurable alignment."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Springer Proceedings in Physics, 11
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	1986
Editors:	Georg Maret • Nino Boccara • Jakob Kiepenheuer
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	231
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-71528-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Medical imaging > Radiology Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Biophysics Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > General
LSN:	3-642-71528-1
Barcode:	9783642715280

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