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The efficient and effective repair of damaged tissue is fundamental to human survival. Wound repair has therefore challenged generations of health care providers, and various strategies have been used to accelerate and perfect the healing process. One such strategy has involved the application of an exogenous electrical stimulus to chronic wounds with the aim of instigating electrotaxis (also called galvanotaxis). Electrotaxis — the movement of diverse cell types in response to electric gradients — has been implicated in the migration of cells to endogenous electric gradients generated in wounded tissue. Even though endogenous electric fields were first identified more than . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison (A.H.); and the Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville (A.R.H.).

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