Comparison of Lucifer Yellow leakage and cell-to-cell transfer following intracellular injection in normal and antisense Novikoff cells under treatment with low extracellular Ca2+

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 493-497

  Liu, Tai Feng ^a   Li, Hai Ying ^b   Atkinson, Michael M ^b   Johnson, Ross G ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense cells; Cell to cell dye transfer; Dye leakage; Gap junction hemi channel; Lucifer Yellow; Novikoff cells

Indexed keywords

EGTAZIC ACID; LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL TRANSFER; IONTOPHORESIS; NONHUMAN;

CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHELATING AGENTS; EGTAZIC ACID; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030473823     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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