The sleep-inducing lipid oleamide deconvolutes gap junction communication and calcium wave transmission in glial cells

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1785-1792

  Guan, Xiaojun ^a   Cravatt, Benjamin F ^a   Ehring, George R ^b   Hall, James E ^b   Boger, Dale L ^a   Lerner, Richard A ^a   Gilula, Norton B ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; HEPTANOL; LIPID; OLEAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLEEP INDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; CRICETINAE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; ISOQUINOLINES; NEUROGLIA; OLEIC ACIDS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; SLEEP; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0031425481     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.7.1785     Document Type: Article

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