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Science 23 October 1970:
Vol. 170. no. 3956, pp. 464 - 466
DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3956.464
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Electrical Coupling: Low Resistance Junctions between Mitotic and Interphase Fibroblasts in Tissue Culture

Paul O'Lague 1, Helge Dalen 1, Harry Rubin 1, and Cornelius Tobias 1

1 Division of Medical Physics, Donner Laboratory, and Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Dividing cells of chick embryonic fibroblasts and of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (3T3) in tissue culture are electrically coupled to their interphase neighbors. Recordings from many such cells suggest that this coupling persists throughout the division cycle of the mitotic cell.


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