Calcium binding to metallochromic dyes and calmodulin in the presence of combined, AC-DC magnetic fields.
Bioelectromagnetics
; 13(2): 147-62, 1992.
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ABSTRACT
The possibility that weak, ac and dc magnetic fields in combination may affect binding equilibria of calcium-ions (Ca2+) was investigated with two metallochromic dyes as calcium-binding molecules murexide and arsenazo III. Calcium-dye equilibria were followed by measuring solution absorbances with a fiber-optic spectrophotometer. A Ca(2+)-arsenazo solution was also used indirectly to monitor the binding of Ca2+ to calmodulin. Parallel, ac and dc magnetic fields were applied to each preparation. The ac magnetic field was held constant during each of a series of experiments at a frequency in the range between 50 and 120 Hz (sine wave) or at 50 pps (square wave) and at an rms flux density in the range between 65 and 156 microT. The dc magnetic field was then varied from 0 to 299 microT at 1.3 microT increments. The magnetic fields did not measurably affect equilibria in the binding of metallochromic dyes or calmodulin to Ca2+.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Arsenazo III
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Calmodulina
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Cálcio
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Campos Eletromagnéticos
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Murexida
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1992
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