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Before going into the details of neuronal tissue as an excitable medium being controlled by small external forces including gravity, it might be useful to remember that excitable media exist about everywhere in real nature and that historically especially some chemical reactions are closely related to the study of such excitable media.
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Wiedemann, M., Kohn, F.P.M., Roesner, H., Hanke, W.R.L. (2011). A Model Systems for Gravity Research: The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction. In: Self-organization and Pattern-formation in Neuronal Systems Under Conditions of Variable Gravity. Nonlinear Physical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14472-1_5
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