title: [Response of sensorimotor cortex neurons to weak disturbances of the magnetic field in Wistar rats. Cytochemical study].
abstract: The influence of weak disturbances (up to 300 microT) of natural magnetic field on the protein metabolism in neurons of sensomotor cortex (layers III and V) in Wistar rats upon learning in a complex maze was studied. It was found that sensomotor neurons were very sensitive to weak disturbances of magnetic field. The protein content increased, while the nucleus-cytoplasm ratio and osmotic state of neurons remained unchanged. The specificity of neuron's reaction manifested itself in a sharp increase of nucleus and cytoplasm dimensions. In associative neurons (layer III), both the nucleus and cytoplasm were involved in the response; in efferent neurons (layer V), only nuclear parameters changed. The variance coefficients of all parameters of protein metabolism in sensomotor neurons, independently of their functional properties, were much higher than in control, which resulted in a wide diversity of cytochemical response.
authors.affiliation: Biological Department Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob'evy Gory, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Shpin'kova
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Nikol'skaia
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Gershteĭn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D018534:Earth, Planet; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D008280:Magnetics; D008297:Male; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000502:physiology; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*