Ischaemia-induced temporal expression of connexin43 in rat heart

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 431, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 453-458

  Matsushita, Tsutomu ^a   Takamatsu, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Connexin43; Gap junction; Ischaemia; Rat heart

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 43; DESMIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOPLASM; DESMIN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SARCOLEMMA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030659822     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280050123     Document Type: Article

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