All cells have electric potentials across their membranes, but is there really compelling evidence to think that such potentials are used as instructional cues in developmental biology? Numerous reports indicate that, in fact, steady, weak bioelectric fields are observed throughout biology and function during diverse biological processes, including development. Bioelectric fields, generated upo...

Fundamental problems in electrophysiology can be studied by computationally modeling and simulating the associated microscopic and macroscopic bioelectric fields. To study such fields computationally, researchers have developed a variety of numerical and computational techniques. Advances in computer architectures have allowed researchers to model increasingly complex biophysical systems. Model...

Experimental studies of bioelectric effects caused by single intense, ultrashort (nanosecond and even subnanosecond), square wave pulses indicate that the product of electric field amplitude and pulse duration, i.e., the electrical impulse, can be considered a similarity or scaling factor. An explanation for this scaling law is based on the assumption that any bioelectric effect in this paramet...

Fateme Pourhasanzade, Seyed Hojjat Sabzpoushan, Ali Mohammad Alizadeh, Ebrahim Esmati a Bioelectric Department, Research laboratory of Biomedical signals and sensors, Iran University of Sciences and Technology (I.U.S.T), Tehran, Iran b Bioelectric Department, Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Iran University of Sciences and Technology (I.U.S.T), Tehran, Iran c Cancer Research Center, Tehran Unive...

PURPOSE To compare the bioelectric field associated with the pattern electroretinogram (PERG) with that of the flash electroretinogram (FERG) in the mouse. METHODS PERGs and FERGs were recorded from each eye in 32 C57BL/6J mice using corneal silver loops referenced to a subcutaneous needle on the back of the head. PERG stimuli were horizontal gratings of 0.05 cycles per degree and 98% contras...