Propagation of traveling waves in excitable media

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2237-2250

  Sager, Brian M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029785478     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.18.2237     Document Type: Review

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