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Self-focusing and Ponderomotive Forces of Coherent Electric Waves: A Mechanism for Cytoskeleton Formation and Dynamics

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Coherent Excitations in Biological Systems

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Coherent electric waves have been predicted to exist in biological systems.(1) We try to link the consequences of their propagation in the cell medium to some peculiar features of cell architecture and organization such as cytoskeleton formation and dynamics.(2) This will give a consistency argument m favour of the existence of coherent electric waves m living systems.(3)

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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy

    E. Del Giudice & M. Milani

  2. Gruppo Nazionale di Struttura della Materia del C. N. R, Istituto di Fisica dell’Università, Via Celoria 16, 1-20133, Milano, Italy

    S. Doglia

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  1. Department of Physics, The University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    Herbert Fröhlich

  2. Max-Plank-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-7000, Stuttgart 80, Germany

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Del Giudice, E., Doglia, S., Milani, M. (1983). Self-focusing and Ponderomotive Forces of Coherent Electric Waves: A Mechanism for Cytoskeleton Formation and Dynamics. In: Fröhlich, H., Kremer, F. (eds) Coherent Excitations in Biological Systems. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69186-7_12

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