Electrochemical control of cell and tissue polarity

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 317-336

  Chang, Fred ^a   Minc, Nicolas ^b  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Cytoskeleton; Electric fields; Electrochemistry; Ion transport; Small GTPases

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ION; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; RHO KINASE; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN 2; ANION; CATION;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PH; CELL POLARITY; CORNEA CELL; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EXOGENOUS ELECTRIC FIELD; FISH; FUNGAL CELL; ION CURRENT; ION TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TISSUE REGENERATION; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FUNGUS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; ANIONS; CATIONS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FISHES; FUNGI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; REGENERATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84924040618     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-100913-013357     Document Type: Review

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