The permeability of gap junctional aqueous channels in reconstituted proteoliposomes

Journal of Liposome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 627-642

  Ghosh, Paramita ^a   Singh, Udai N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Gap junction; Light scattering; Membrane permeability; Membrane transport; Proteoliposomes

Indexed keywords

PROTEOLIPID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SWELLING; CHANNEL GATING; FLUID TRANSPORT; LIVER CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOLIPOSOME; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0029790824     PISSN: 08982104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08982109609031143     Document Type: Article

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