Endogenous voltage gradients as mediators of cell-cell communication: Strategies for investigating bioelectrical signals during pattern formation

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-122

  Adams, Dany S ^a   Levin, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gap junction; Ion; Morphogenesis; Voltage gradient

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA;

BIOELECTRICAL SIGNALING; BIOPHYSICS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84875276205     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1329-4     Document Type: Review

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