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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2017 Jun 9;356(6342):1022–1025. doi: 10.1126/science.aam6496

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Wound healing studies in model cells such as Xenopus oocytes and muscle cells found that the process is triggered by the influx of Ca2+ and oxidative species. These species induce the fusion of membranes derived from intracellular vesicles and organelles, as well as the contraction of actomyosin purse string around the wound site.