title: Wound healing: calcium flashes illuminate early events.
abstract: What are the earliest signals produced at a wound edge that mobilise epithelial cells to heal the wound? Live analysis of wound healing in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans shows that calcium may be the key early trigger.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. w.wood@bath.ac.uk
authors.forename: Will
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wood
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000276:immunology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D004817:Epidermis / Q000276:immunology*; D043802:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11 / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000276:immunology*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D043802:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gq-G11; D002118:Calcium