Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
1976
Abstract
Ultraviolet light can be used to stimulate electrical current flow in bone and tendon. This stimulated photocurrent is directional. In tendon the photocurrent parallel to the fibrils is greater than the photocurrent perpendicular to the fibrils. In bone, the longitudinal photocurrent is less than the transverse photocurrent.
Comments
Published in Biophysical Journal 16 (1976), pp. 845-846.