Molecular bioelectricity: how endogenous voltage potentials control cell behavior and instruct pattern regulation in vivo

M Levin - Molecular biology of the cell, 2014 - Am Soc Cell Biol
In addition to biochemical gradients and transcriptional networks, cell behavior is regulated
by endogenous bioelectrical cues originating in the activity of ion channels and pumps …

Glutamate and its receptors in cancer

A Stepulak, R Rola, K Polberg… - Journal of neural …, 2014 - Springer
Glutamate, a nonessential amino acid, is a major bioenergetic substrate for proliferating
normal and neoplastic cells on one hand and an excitatory neurotransmitter that is actively …

Grade-dependent metabolic reprogramming in kidney cancer revealed by combined proteomics and metabolomics analysis

HI Wettersten, AA Hakimi, D Morin, C Bianchi… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Kidney cancer [or renal cell carcinoma (RCC)] is known as “the internist's tumor” because it
has protean systemic manifestations, suggesting that it utilizes complex, nonphysiologic …

[HTML][HTML] Validation and implementation of targeted capture and sequencing for the detection of actionable mutation, copy number variation, and gene rearrangement …

CC Pritchard, SJ Salipante, K Koehler, C Smith… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen development and implementation of anticancer therapies targeted
to particular gene mutations, but methods to assay clinical cancer specimens in a …

Large‐scale across species transcriptomic analysis identifies genetic selection signatures associated with longevity in mammals

W Liu, P Zhu, M Li, Z Li, Y Yu, G Liu, J Du… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Lifespan varies significantly among mammals, with more than 100‐fold difference between
the shortest and longest living species. This natural difference may uncover the evolutionary …

Bioelectrical approaches to cancer as a problem of the scaling of the cellular self

M Levin - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
One lens with which to understand the complex phenomenon of cancer is that of
developmental biology. Cancer is the inevitable consequence of a breakdown of the …

Metabotropic glutamate receptors in cancer

JY Lumeng, BA Wall, J Wangari-Talbot, S Chen - Neuropharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are widely known for their roles in synaptic
signaling. However, accumulating evidence suggests roles of mGluRs in human …

[HTML][HTML] Endogenous voltage potentials and the microenvironment: bioelectric signals that reveal, induce and normalize cancer

B Chernet, M Levin - Journal of clinical & experimental oncology, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer may be a disease of geometry: a misregulation of the field of information that
orchestrates individual cells' activities towards normal anatomy. Recent work identified …

[HTML][HTML] Glutamate signaling in benign and malignant disorders: current status, future perspectives, and therapeutic implications

SS Willard, S Koochekpour - International journal of biological …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Glutamate, a nonessential amino acid, is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central
nervous system. As such, glutamate has been shown to play a role in not only neural …

Glutamate in peripheral organs: Biology and pharmacology

J Du, XH Li, YJ Li - European journal of pharmacology, 2016 - Elsevier
Glutamate is a versatile molecule existing in both the central nervous system and peripheral
organs. Previous studies have mainly focussed on the biological effect of glutamate in the …