Gravity and positional homeostasis of the cell
dc.contributor.author | Nace, George W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T18:48:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T18:48:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1983 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nace, George W. (1983)."Gravity and positional homeostasis of the cell." Advances in Space Research 3(9): 159-168. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25375> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V3S-472BD20-G9/2/54a304eddd39fd234d7a1c3dfb1dcabb | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25375 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=11542443&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Normally bilateralization takes place in the presence of the Earth's gravity which produces torque, shear, tension and compression acting upon the naked aggregates of cytoplasm in the zygote which is only stabilized by a weak cytoskeleton. In an initial examination of the effects of these quantities on development, an expression is derived to describe the tendency of torque to rotate the egg and reorganize its constituents. This expression yields the net torque resulting from buoyancy and gravity acting upon a dumbbell shaped cell with heavy and light masses at either end and "floating" in a medium. Using crude values for the variables, torques of 2.5 x 10-13 to 8.5 x 10-1 dyne-cm are found to act upon cells ranging from 6.4 [mu]m to 31 mm (chicken egg). By way of comparison six microtubules can exert a torque of 5 x 10-9 dyne-cm. (1) Gravity imparts torque to cells; (2) torque is reduced to zero as gravity approaches zero; and (3) torque is sensitive to cell size and particulate distribution. Cells must expend energy to maintain positional homeostasis against gravity. Although not previously recognized, Skylab 3 results support this hypothesis: tissue cultures used 58% more glucose on Earth than in space. The implications for developmental biology, physiology, genetics, and evolution are considered. At the cellular and tissue level the concept of "gravity receptors" may be unnecessary. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Gravity and positional homeostasis of the cell | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Aerospace Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Human Growth and Development, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 11542443 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25375/1/0000824.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0273-1177(83)90053-4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Advances in Space Research | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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