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SUBMITTER: Restrepo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980486 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Restrepo Simon S Basler Konrad K
Nature communications 20160809
Calcium signalling is a highly versatile cellular communication system that modulates basic functions such as cell contractility, essential steps of animal development such as fertilization and higher-order processes such as memory. We probed the function of calcium signalling in Drosophila wing imaginal discs through a combination of ex vivo and in vivo imaging and genetic analysis. Here we discover that wing discs display slow, long-range intercellular calcium waves (ICWs) when mechanically st ...[more]