An overview of sub-cellular mechanisms involved in the action of TTFields

JA Tuszynski, C Wenger, DE Friesen… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Long-standing research on electric and electromagnetic field interactions with biological
cells and their subcellular structures has mainly focused on the low-and high-frequency …

All wired up: an exploration of the electrical properties of microtubules and tubulin

AP Kalra, BB Eakins, SD Patel, G Ciniero, V Rezania… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Microtubules are hollow, cylindrical polymers of the protein α, β tubulin, that interact
mechanochemically with a variety of macromolecules. Due to their mechanically robust …

Signal transmission through elements of the cytoskeleton form an optimized information network in eukaryotic cells

BR Frieden, RA Gatenby - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple prior empirical and theoretical studies have demonstrated wire-like flow of electrons
and ions along elements of the cytoskeleton but this has never been linked to a biological …

[BUCH][B] Embryogenesis explained

NK Gordon, R Gordon - 2016 - books.google.com
The greatest mystery of life is how a single fertilized egg develops into a fully functioning,
sometimes conscious multicellular organism. Embryogenesis Explained offers a new theory …

Modified exp-function method to find exact solutions of ionic currents along microtubules

Attaullah, M Shakeel, NA Shah, JD Chung - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
A number of solitary wave solutions for microtubules (MTs) are observed in this article by
using the modified exp-function approach. We tackle the problem by treating the results as …

Nonlinear ionic pulses along microtubules

DL Sekulić, BM Satarić, JA Tuszynski… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
Microtubules are cylindrically shaped cytoskeletal biopolymers that are essential for cell
motility, cell division and intracellular trafficking. Here, we investigate their polyelectrolyte …

Soliton-mediated ionic pulses and coupled ionic excitations in a dissipative electrical network model of microtubules

E Tankou, CB Tabi, TC Kofané - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
Many cellular activities are mediated by microtubules (MTs), with most electrophysiological
processes depending on ionic flow through MT cylinders. This paper addresses such …

Modeling microtubule counterion distributions and conductivity using the Poisson-Boltzmann equation

BB Eakins, SD Patel, AP Kalra, V Rezania… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microtubules are highly negatively charged proteins which have been shown to behave as
bio-nanowires capable of conducting ionic currents. The electrical characteristics of …

[HTML][HTML] An analytical method for solving exact solutions of a nonlinear evolution equation describing the dynamics of ionic currents along microtubules

MN Alam, MM Alam - Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2017 - Elsevier
In this article, a variety of solitary wave solutions are observed for microtubules (MTs). We
approach the problem by treating the solutions as nonlinear RLC transmission lines and …

Solitonic ionic currents along microtubules

MV Satarić, D Sekulić, M Živanov - Journal of Computational …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Microtubules are very important cytoskeletal structures implicated in different cellular
activities. We should mention the cell division and traffic of organelles (mitochondria …