Localization and function of the connexin 43 gap-junction protein in normal and various oncogene-expressing rat liver epithelial cells

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 203-212

  De Feijter, Adriaan W ^a   Matesic, Diane F ^b   Ruch, Randall J ^c   Guan, Xiaojun ^c   Chang, Chia Cheng ^b   Trosko, James E ^b,d  

^a Meridian Instruments Inc   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channels; Confocal microscopy; Neoplastic transformation; Nuclear localization sequence; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE MYC; ONCOGENE NEU; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOQUINOLINES; LIVER; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MUTATION; ONCOGENES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0029739466     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199608)16:4<203::AID-MC4>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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