Sensitive model with which to detect athermal effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation
✍ Scribed by Jeffrey D. Saffer; Louis A. Profenno
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 500 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0197-8462
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✦ Synopsis
To clarify the potential of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation to cause biological effects by athermal mechanisms, and to initiate elucidation of those mechanisms, a model system amenable to scrutiny at the molecular level has been designed and characterized.
Assessment of P-galactosidase activity in E. coli JMlOl containing the plasmid pUC8 provides a sensitive assay with many important advantages. The ability to examine at the molecular level each of the processes involved in producing P-galactosidase should permit elucidation of the molecular mechanism(s) that give rises to an observed effect.