An overview of sub-cellular mechanisms involved in the action of TTFields

JA Tuszynski, C Wenger, DE Friesen… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Long-standing research on electric and electromagnetic field interactions with biological
cells and their subcellular structures has mainly focused on the low-and high-frequency …

Electric fields generated by synchronized oscillations of microtubules, centrosomes and chromosomes regulate the dynamics of mitosis and meiosis

Y Zhao, Q Zhan - Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2012 - Springer
Super-macromolecular complexes play many important roles in eukaryotic cells. Classical
structural biological studies focus on their complicated molecular structures, physical …

Experimental evidence for long-distance electrodynamic intermolecular forces

M Lechelon, Y Meriguet, M Gori, S Ruffenach… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Both classical and quantum electrodynamics predict the existence of dipole-dipole long-
range electrodynamic intermolecular forces; however, these have never been hitherto …

Anesthetic alterations of collective terahertz oscillations in tubulin correlate with clinical potency: Implications for anesthetic action and post-operative cognitive …

TJA Craddock, P Kurian, J Preto, K Sahu… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Anesthesia blocks consciousness and memory while sparing non-conscious brain activities.
While the exact mechanisms of anesthetic action are unknown, the Meyer-Overton …

Bundles of brain microtubules generate electrical oscillations

MR Cantero, C Villa Etchegoyen, PL Perez… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Microtubules (MTs) are long cylindrical structures of the cytoskeleton that control cell
division, intracellular transport, and the shape of cells. MTs also form bundles, which are …

Possible role of electrodynamic interactions in long-distance biomolecular recognition

J Preto, M Pettini, JA Tuszynski - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
The issue of retarded long-range resonant interactions between two molecules with
oscillating dipole moments is revisited within the framework of classical electrodynamics. By …

Electro-acoustic behavior of the mitotic spindle: a semi-classical coarse-grained model

D Havelka, O Kučera, MA Deriu, M Cifra - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The regulation of chromosome separation during mitosis is not fully understood yet.
Microtubules forming mitotic spindles are targets of treatment strategies which are aimed at …

Classical investigation of long-range coherence in biological systems

J Preto - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Almost five decades ago, H. Fröhlich [H. Fröhlich,“Long-range coherence and energy
storage in biological systems,” Int. J. Quantum Chem. 2 (5), 641–649 (1968)] reported, on a …

Resonant long-range interactions between polar macromolecules

J Preto, M Pettini - Physics Letters A, 2013 - Elsevier
Motivated by its prospective biological relevance, the issue of resonant long-range
interactions between two molecules displaying oscillating dipole moments is reinvestigated …

Experimental detection of long-distance interactions between biomolecules through their diffusion behavior: Numerical study

I Nardecchia, L Spinelli, J Preto, M Gori, E Floriani… - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
The dynamical properties and diffusive behavior of a collection of mutually interacting
particles are numerically investigated for two types of long-range interparticle interactions …