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 ...

[1] The absence of a protective epithelium in the burn wound ... whether epinephrine impairs keratinocyte migration and re-epithelialization of burn wounds (keratinocytes have a receptor for ...

This meant that calcium ions were likely necessary for epithelial cells to generate the bioelectric signals that guide wound healing. We then blocked the ion channels that allow calcium and other ...