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Charging the batteries to heal wounds through PI3K

Nature Chemical Biology volume 2, pages 453–455 (2006)Cite this article

Endogenous electric fields in wounds have been documented for centuries, but they have received little attention from the scientific community. A new study shows that manipulation of these electric fields affects wound healing in vivo and identifies the phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling pathway as a key component of cell migration in response to electric cues.

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Figure 1: Action potential in individual cells and injury potential in tissues.

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Vanhaesebroeck, B. Charging the batteries to heal wounds through PI3K. Nat Chem Biol 2, 453–455 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio0906-453

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