Ultrastructural and biochemical evidence for gap junction and connexin 43 expression in a clonal Sertoli cell line: A potential model in the study of junctional complex formation

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 279-287

  Lablack, Abdesselam ^a   Bourdon, Véronique ^b   Defamie, Norah ^b   Batias, Catherine ^a,b   Mesnil, Marc ^c   Fenichel, Patrick ^b   Pointis, Georges ^b   Segretain, Dominique ^a  

^a Section of Radiology   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Gap junctions; Mouse; Regulation; Sertoli cell line

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; CYCLIC AMP; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LINE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL;

8-BROMO CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOGENS; COLORING AGENTS; CONNEXIN 43; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GOLGI APPARATUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEIN KINASE C; SERTOLI CELLS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031765054     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051178     Document Type: Article

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