Neuronal expression in cleavage-arrested ascidian blastomeres requires gap junctional uncoupling from neighbouring cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 491, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 825-842

  Saitoe, Minoro ^a   Inazawa, Takeshi ^b   Takahashi, Kunitaro ^b,c  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; DYE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; K 252A; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; TADPOLE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0029869888     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021260     Document Type: Article

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