Cancer

Cancer’s unique bioelectric properties: from cells to body-wide networks, Comment on: “The distinguishing electrical properties of cancer cells” by Elisabetta Di Gregorio, Simone Israel, Michael Staelens, Gabriella Tankel, Karthik Shankar, and Jack A. Tuszynski
Mathews, J., and Levin, M. (2023)
Physics of Life Reviews, 47: 113-115

The Yin and Yang of Breast Cancer: Ion Channels as Determinants of Left-Right Functional Differences
Masuelli, S., Real, S., McMillen, P., Oudin, M., Levin, M., and Roqué, M. (2023)
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(13): 11121

Ion Channel Drugs Suppress Cancer Phenotype in NG108-15 and U87 Cells: Toward Novel Electroceuticals for Glioblastoma
Mathews, J., Kuchling, F., Baez-Nieto, D., Diberardinis, M., Pan, J. Q., and Levin, M. (2022)
Cancers, 14(6): 1499

When left does not seem right: epigenetic and bioelectric differences between left- and right-sided breast cancer
Masuelli, S., Sebastian, R., Campoy, E., Branham, M. T., Marzese, D. M., Matthew, S., DeBlas, G., Rodolfo, A., Levin, M., and Roque, M. (2022)
Molecular Medicine, 28(1): 15

Potassium channel-driven bioelectric signalling regulates metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer
Payne, S. L., Ram, P., Srinivasan, D. H., Le, T. T., Levin, M., and Oudin, M. J. (2022)
EBioMedicine, 75: 103767

Cell Systems Bioelectricity: How Different Intercellular Gap Junctions Could Regionalize a Multicellular Aggregate
Riol, A., Cervera, J., Levin, M., and Mafe, S. (2021)
Cancers, 13(21): 5300

Beyond Neurons: Long Distance Communication in Development and Cancer
McMillen, P., Oudin, M. J, Levin, M., and Payne, S. L. (2021)
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 9: 739024

Bioelectrical approaches to cancer as a problem of the scaling of the cellular self
Levin, M. (2021)
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 165: 102-113

Bioelectric control of metastasis in solid tumors
Payne, S. L., Levin, M., and Oudin, M. J. (2019)
Bioelectricity, 1(3): 114-130

Ion channel and neurotransmitter modulators as electroceutical approaches to the control of cancer
Tuszynski, J., Tilli, T. M., and Levin, M. (2017)
Current Pharmaceutical Design, 23(32): 4827-4841

Cancer as a Disorder of Patterning Information: computational and biophysical perspectives on the cancer problem
Moore, D., Walker, S., and Levin, M. (2017)
Convergent Science Physical Oncology, 3(4): 043001

IK channel activation increases tumor growth and induces differential behavioral responses in two breast epithelial cell lines
Thurber, A. E., Nelson, M., Frost, C. L., Levin, M., Brackenbury, W. J., and Kaplan, D. L. (2017)
Oncotarget, 8(26): 42382-42397

Discovering novel phenotypes with automatically inferred dynamic models: partial melanocyte conversion in Xenopus
Lobo, D., Lobikin, M., and Levin, M. (2017)
Scientific Reports, 7: 41339

Use of genetically encoded, light-gated ion translocators to control tumorigenesis
Chernet, B. T., Adams, D. S., Lobikin, M., and Levin, M. (2016)
Oncotarget, 7(15): 19575-19588

Serotonergic regulation of melanocyte conversion: A bioelectrically regulated network for stochastic all-or-none hyperpigmentation
Lobikin, M., Lobo, D., Blackiston, D. J., Martyniuk, C. J., Tkachenko, E., and Levin, M. (2015)
Science Signaling, 8(397): ra99

Long-range gap junctional signaling controls oncogene-mediated tumorigenesis in Xenopus laevis embryos
Chernet, B. T., Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2015)
Frontiers in Physiology, 5: 519

Transmembrane voltage potential of somatic cells controls oncogene-mediated tumorigenesis at long-range
Chernet, B., and Levin, M. (2014)
Oncotarget, 5(10): 3287-3306

Endogenous voltage potentials and the microenvironment: bioelectric signals that reveal, induce, and normalize cancer
Chernet, B., and Levin, M. (2013)
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology, Suppl 1: S1-002

Transmembrane voltage potential is an essential cellular parameter for the detection and control of tumor development
Chernet, B. T., and Levin, M. (2013)
Disease Models & Mechanisms, 6(3): 595-607

Resting potential, oncogene-induced tumorigenesis, and metastasis: the bioelectric basis of cancer in vivo
Lobikin, M., Chernet, B., Lobo, D., and Levin, M. (2012)
Physical Biology, 9(6): 065002 

Transmembrane potential of GlyCl-expressing instructor cells induces a neoplastic-like conversion of melanocytes via a serotonergic pathway
Blackiston, D., Adams, D. S., Lemire, J. M., Lobikin, M., and Levin, M. (2011)
Disease Models and Mechanisms, 4(1): 67-85

Modulation of potassium channel confers a hyper-proliferative invasive phenotype on embryonic stem cells
Morokuma, J., Blackiston, D., Adams, D. S., Seebohm, G., Trimmer, B., and Levin, M. (2008)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 105(43): 16608-16613