Structure-Function Relationships in Gap Junctions

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 157, Issue C, 1995, Pages 315-373

  Wolburg, Hartwig ^a   Rohlmann, Astrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Brain; Central nervous system; Connexin; Connexon; Freeze fracturing; Gap junction; Gap junctions in development; Gap junctions in oncogenesis; Heart; Horizontal cells; Lens; Liver; Phosphorylation of connexins; Retina; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEIN;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA CELL; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION;

EID: 0028901331     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(08)62161-0     Document Type: Article

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