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The effect of a low-frequency alternating magnetic field on the properties of E. coli bacterial cells in an aqueous medium have been studied in vitro. The experiments were performed with a daily grown culture of E. coli HB-101 cells obtained in a liquid LB medium. The samples were prepared by means of turbidity-controlled serial dilutions and then grown on a bactoagar. It is established that E. coli colonies grown upon exposure of a monolayer of cells in the alternating magnetic field had a smaller average diameter than the colonies not treated in the field. The number of cell colonies was increased, which indicated that the treatment of E. coli cells in a low-frequency magnetic field produced stimulation of the cell growth.
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Translated from Khimiko-Farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 39, No. 8, pp.6 – 8, August, 2005.
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Babushkina, I.V., Borodulin, V.B., Shmetkova, N.A. et al. The Influence of Alternating Magnetic Field on Escherichia coli Bacterial Cells. Pharm Chem J 39, 398–400 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11094-005-0166-0
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