The effects of NMR exposure on living organisms. I. A microbial assay.
Various bacterial strains have been exposed to a homogeneous magnetic field of 1 Tesla and to the conditions found in an NMR imaging experiment of the type used in a recent abdominal scan (Mansfield et al., 1978). No mutagenic or lethal effects were observed. The activity of the bacterial enzyme beta-galactosidase was also found to be independent of the applied magnetic field.
D010582:Bacteriophage lambda; D004260:DNA Repair; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D009154:Mutation; D014775:Virus Activation; D001616:beta-Galactosidase / Q000378:metabolism
D001616:beta-Galactosidase