The effect of static magnetic fields on biological systems: Implications for enhanced biodegradation

Water purification using magnetic assistance: A review

“…The studies on effects of magnetic fields on biological and biochemical systems suggest the potential application of static magnetic fields to enhance microbial degradation of environmental pollutants such as paraoxons [156][157][158]. For in vivo applications, the biocompatibility of magnetic iron oxide based minerals is known.…”

Magnetic field effects on bistability and bifurcation phenomena in lipid peroxidation

“…A convincing body of evidence has been amassed for observation of the effect of both static and alternating MFs on living systems. Numerous reviews of works on magnetobiology [Grissom, 1995;Kaiser, 1996;Kovacs et al, 1997;Berg, 1999; International Agency for Research on Cancer. Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, 2002;Binhi and Savin, 2003;Feychting, 2005] testify to great interest in this problem.…”

Potential Use of 18 Tesla Static and Pulsed Magnetic Fields on Escherichia Coli and Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

“…Since phospholipid bilayer structure was reported as exhibiting magnetic anisotropy (Gaffney and McConnell 1974;Kovacs et al 1997), an experiment was conducted using 200 magnetic field pulses at 18 T with temperature set near phospholipid bilayer membranes phase transition temperature (42C) (Kaneshina et al 1996;Frankel and Liburdy 1996). Although the orientation of loosened phospholipids on cell membranes was expected to promote inactivation, no differences in CFU counts were observed between treated and control samples in VRB and nutrient agar.…”