Direct experimental evidence of the vectorial character of the interaction between electric pulses and cells in cell electrofusion.
Fusion is induced between cultured mammalian cells growing on culture flasks by electric pulses. The yield of fusion and the level of polynucleation are dependent on the relative direction of the applied pulses. The effect of the pulse on the cells is thus proved to be vectorial and not scalar.
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