0303797 - URE-Y 20010011 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Jelínek, František - Pokorný, Jiří
Microtubules in biological cells as circular waveguides and resonators.
Electro and Magnetobiology. Roč. 20, č. 1 (2001), s. 75-80. ISSN 1061-9526.
[Electromagnetic Aspects of Selforganization in Biology. Prague, 09.07.2000-12.07.2000]
Grant CEP: GA ČR GA102/97/0867
Grant ostatní: EU COST(XE) OC 244BIS.10
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z2067918
Klíčová slova: cellular biophysics * waveguides * resonators
Kód oboru RIV: JA - Elektronika a optoelektronika, elektrotechnika
Impakt faktor: 0.333, rok: 2001

The microtubules in the cellular cytoskeleton have fundamental role in living process of biological cells. They are hollow cylinders which resemble circular waveguides. The cutoff frequencies of the TM and TE modes of the microtubule cavities are in the band of the soft X-rays. This suggests the possibility of interaction of electromagnetic cavity modes with inner electrons in atoms (e.g. in carbon, nitrogen and oxygen). The biological cells (e.g. the yeast cells of spherical shape) may represent cavity resonators too. In this case the resonant frequencies may be in the infrared region.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0113981