Molecular Bioelectricity and Cell Behaviour
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cellular Biophysics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 14780
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia
3. Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and Institute of Innovative Materials, AIIM Facility, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, Fairy Meadow, NSW 2519, Australia
Interests: biomedical engineering; regenerative medicine (including stem cells); cancer therapy; medical devices; tissue engineering; tissue modelling
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Interests: stem cell biology; cancer cell biology; neurobiology; biomaterials; electroceuticals; organoids; tissue engineering; bioprinting; regenerative medicine; gene and molecular therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular bioelectricity is an emerging discipline that exploits endogenous electrically mediated signalling for understanding and controlling cell behaviours. First explicated in the 1800s by physicist and biologist Luigi Galvani who investigated “animal electricity”, it also derives from the work of Lionel Jaffe in the 1970s, which prompted new research into the role of electrical currents in cell and tissue development, tissue regeneration, and cancer therapeutics. It is now clear that electrical potential is essential to the function of all cells, being both a by-product and regulator of diverse inter- and intra-cellular processes, in parallel and in series with biochemical (including transcriptional) and physicochemical signalling. Notwithstanding the considerable and compelling work on biological electrical phenomena to date, Molecular Bioelectricity remains relatively understudied and underutilised, with significant potential for frontier research and biomedical innovation. In this Special Issue of Cells, we would like to present advances in the fundamental understanding of the coupling between human cell physiology and bioelectricity, extending to pathophysiology, with the latter including but not limited to disorders of development, cancer, and tissue trauma. Additionally, we are interested in the translation of bioelectrics for diagnostics and therapeutics, again including but not limited to cancer therapeutics, regenerative medicine, and disorders of development.
Guest Editors
Jeremy Micah Crook and Eva Tomaskovic-Crook
Prof. Dr. Jeremy M. Crook
Dr. Eva Tomaskovic-Crook
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioelectricity
- ions
- charged molecule
- cell behavior
- development
- disease
- cancer
- regenerative medicine
- diagnostics
- therapeutics
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