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The collagenous supporting tissues and spinal cord of man and other vertebrates are shown to have a permanent longitudinal electric polarization whose vector directions are related to morphogenetic directions of development.
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ATHENSTAEDT, H. Permanent Longitudinal Electric Polarization and Pyroelectric Behaviour of Collagenous Structures and Nervous Tissue in Man and other Vertebrates. Nature 228, 830–834 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228830a0
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