Endogenous bioelectrical networks store non-genetic patterning information during development and regeneration

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 592, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2295-2305

  Levin, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOELECTRIC SIGNALING; BIOELECTRICAL NETWORK; BIOENERGY; BIOENGINEERING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CRANIOFACIAL PATTERNING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DYNAMICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EYE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HEAD TAIL POLARITY; HUMAN; LIMB REGENERATION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SYNTHETIC BIOENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84901483749     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.271940     Document Type: Review

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