Size and selectivity of gap junction channels formed from different connexins

Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 327-337

  Veenstra, Richard D ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2',7' dichlorofluorescein; 6 carboxyfluorescein; biionic reversal potentials; channel conductance; conductance ratios; Connexin; dye permeability; Goldman Hodgkin Katz voltage and current equations; ionic selectivity; Lucifer Yellow

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029738724     PISSN: 0145479X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02110109     Document Type: Short Survey

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