| Literature DB >> 12750447 |
Harvey M Fishman1, George D Bittner.
Abstract
Ca(2+)-induced endocytotic vesicles undergo protein-mediated interactions to restore a selectively permeable barrier and propagated action potentials in severed invertebrate giant axons. Similar barrier-restoration phenomena observed in cultured mammalian cells with transected neurites suggest that cellular/molecular mechanisms that repair plasmalemmal damage are phylogenetically conserved.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12750447 DOI: 10.1152/nips.01429.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: News Physiol Sci ISSN: 0886-1714