Peptides homologous to extracellular loop motifs of connexin 43 reversibly abolish rhythmic contractile activity in rabbit arteries

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 503, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-110

  Chaytor, A T ^a   Evans, W H ^a   Griffith, T M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; HEPTANOL; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 40; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTERY WALL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAP JUNCTION; IC50; PROTEIN MOTIF; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALCOHOLS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEPTANOL; LUNG; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; OSCILLOMETRY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHENYLEPHRINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RABBITS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030765777     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.099bi.x     Document Type: Article

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