Bioelectricity and Regeneration
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 29 (8) , 468-474
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1307539
Abstract
A wide variety of developing systems drive large steady electric current through themselves. In particular, the stumps of amputated amphibian limbs drive large currents out their cut ends. The effects of modulating these stump currents suggest that they help initiate regeneration.Keywords
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