Frequent reduction of gap junctional intercellular communication and connexin43 expression in human and mouse lung carcinoma cells

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-67

  Cesen Cummings, Kimberley ^a   Fernstrom, Martha J ^a   Malkinson, Alvin M ^b   Ruch, Randall J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CONNEXIN 43; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031846031     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/19.1.61     Document Type: Article

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