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. 1976 Apr;69(1):223-6.
doi: 10.1083/jcb.69.1.223.

Oscillations of calcium ion concentrations in Physarum polycephalum

E B Ridgway, A C Durham

Oscillations of calcium ion concentrations in Physarum polycephalum

E B Ridgway et al. J Cell Biol. 1976 Apr.

Abstract

Aequorin is a photoprotein which emits light in response to changes in free calcium concentration. When aequorin was microinjected into plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum, light emission varied in synchrony with the motile oscillations of the organisms. Therefore, movement is correlated which changes in the concentration of free calcium.

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