Three Vital Roles of Membranes in Electrical Communication in Lives

Electrical signals play the primary role in rapid signal transmission in lives, especially in nerve system. This kind of signals are actually electromagnetic (EM) signals, whose generation and propagation rely on the bio-membrane.
Membranes, play three vital roles in electrical communication in lives. Firstly, membranes serve as the capacitive power supply in lives. They are also the framework supporting protein channels where EM signals are generated by the transient transmembrane ionic currents. In addition, membranes, together with bilateral ionic solutions, compose the softmaterial waveguide, which enable the effective transmission of the EM pulses generated by the transient ionic currents.
Furthermore, softmaterial waveguide network model is built to explain the uniform electrical communication mechanism in organism lives, plants and higher vertebrates by analyzing and summarizing the existing phenomena and data on the movement of paramecium, the prey behavior of flytraps and the synchronistic discharge activity in electric eels. To be specific, the network behaves as the biological membrane in unicellular organisms, plasmodesmata and sieve tubes in plants, and nervous system mostly in higher vertebrates.