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Dong-Yeon D Lee1, Arthur Prindle1, Jintao Liu1

  • 1Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Cell
|July 1, 2017
PubMed
まとめ

生体系の電気的性質の研究である 電気生理学は 神経科学を超えて広がっています 最近の発見は,細菌がコミュニティの協調のために電気化学信号を使用することを示し,細菌バイオフィルム電気生理学の新しい分野を定義しています.

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