Topological action potentials in engineered tissues
H. Ori, M. Duque Ramirez, R. F. Hayward, H. Tian, G. Ortiz, A. E. Cohen
The paper demonstrates that gap junction-coupled interfaces between non-excitable tissues can exhibit electrical excitability, a topologically protected phenomenon with broader ion channel expression tolerance than bulk excitability.
bioRxiv · Mar 16, 2022Biophysics