ReviewThe Journal of cell biology2018
Chemical waves in cell and developmental biology.
Review in The Journal of cell biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.
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- Geometrical compartmentalization of trigger waves.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Formation of Membrane Domains via Actin Waves: A Fundamental Principle in the Generation of Dynamic Structures in Phagocytes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Learning stochastic reaction-diffusion models from limited data using spatiotemporal features.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Information transmission in a cell monolayer: A numerical study.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Mesoscale heterogeneity is a critical determinant for spiral pattern formation in developing social amoeba.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Spatial heterogeneity accelerates phase-to-trigger wave transitions in frog egg extracts.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Mitotic waves in frog egg extracts: Transition from phase waves to trigger waves.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Collective signalling drives rapid jumping between cell states.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- The Wave Model of Sleep Dynamics and an Invariant Relationship between NonREM and REM Sleep.Clocks & sleep · 2023Article
- ERK signaling waves via body-wall muscles guide planarian whole-body regeneration across long distances.Cell regeneration (London, England) · 2023Article
- An active traveling wave of Eda/NF-κB signaling controls the timing and hexagonal pattern of skin appendages in zebrafish.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
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- Pattern selection by material aging: Modeling chemical gardens in two and three dimensions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- An active traveling wave of Eda/NF-kB signaling controls the timing and hexagonal pattern of skin appendages in zebrafish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Ultrafast and long-range coordination of wound responses is essential for whole-body regeneration.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Many biological events, such as the propagation of nerve impulses, the synchronized cell cycles of early embryogenesis, and collective cell migration, must be coordinated with remarkable speed across very large distances. Such rapid coordination cannot be achieved by simple diffusion of molecules alone and requires specialized mechanisms. Although active transport can provide a directed and efficient way to travel across subcellular structures, it cannot account for the most rapid examples of coordination found in biology. Rather, these appear to be driven by mechanisms involving traveling waves of chemical activities that are able to propagate information rapidly across biological or physical systems. Indeed, recent advances in our ability to probe the dynamics of signaling pathways are revealing many examples of coordination of cellular and developmental processes through traveling chemical waves. Here, we will review the theoretical principles underlying such waves; highlight recent literature on their role in different contexts, ranging from chemotaxis to development; and discuss open questions and future perspectives on the study of chemical waves as an essential feature of cell and tissue physiology.
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