Modulating effect of external magnetic fields on growth, development and pathogenicity of microorganisms

AUTHORS : Gotovsky Yu.V. | Perov Yu.F.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Center “IMEDIS”, Moscow, Russia

YEAR : 2003 | Category : Research

The role of microorganisms in the life of mankind is very great – from the impact on health and cleaning the environment from human waste to the industrial production of a wide range of pharmacological agents and physiologically active substances. All these problems at the present stage require the study of the characteristics of the growth and metabolism of microorganisms and, first of all, the behavior of whole cells and populations on external influences [1, 2].

Under natural conditions, microorganisms are rarely in optimal conditions, since the most favorable in terms of supply of substrates, in environmental parameters are carried out only for laboratories or in the process of industrial cultivation of microorganisms. IN nature, most often life microorganisms occurs with an imbalance within certain limits of nutrients and unfavorable physicochemical conditions (lack or, on the contrary, an excess of oxygen, individual nutrients, water, high or low temperature, non-optimal pH, UV radiation, etc.).