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The Role of Nervous Electricity in the Nervous System
Skin cells are around minus 70 millivolts that's their little electrical identity they link up like link arms to form your, your epithelium. When you cut them right when you cut this very tight little layer it basically short circuits the current flows out of all the cells and that generates an electric field. And what that electric field does is it acts like a homing beacon, and all the cells that have to come repair the wound like keratinocytes,. macrophages that mop up the mess. They actually come in and they all converge on the cathode of the electric field which is located like a bullseye at the center of the wound. And that's the
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