The role of cytoskeleton in the mechanisms of electric field effects and information transfer in cellular systems.
Microtubules and other cytoskeletal elements are ubiquitous components of all kinds of cellular systems. The suggestion is made that they are implicated in the mechanisms of biomedical and therapeutic field effects as well as in the processes of information transfer in neurons and other cells. Defined electrical properties and orientational field effects in microtubule systems are considered as a basis of such functions of the cytoskeleton. The concrete mechanisms of transfer of signals along the microtubules and other cytoskeletal fibres may involve cooperative periodical changes of conformation, of ion binding, or of different electrical parameters and enzymatic activities of their components.
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D008870:Microtubules / Q000502:physiology; D011487:Protein Conformation