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. 2017 Feb;1(1-2):e1600035.
doi: 10.1002/adbi.201600035. Epub 2017 Jan 11.

Muscle-Cell-Based "Living Diodes"

Uryan Isik Can  1 , Neerajha Nagarajan  2 , Dervis Can Vural  3 , Pinar Zorlutuna  1   2
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Muscle-Cell-Based "Living Diodes"

Uryan Isik Can et al. Adv Biosyst. 2017 Feb.

Abstract

A new type of diode that is made entirely of electrically excitable muscle cells and nonexcitable fibroblast cells is designed, fabricated, and characterized. These two cell types in a rectangular pattern allow the signal initiated on the excitable side to pass to the nonexcitable side, and not in the opposite direction.

Keywords: biocomputing; cell patterning; diodes; iontronics; muscle cells.

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