Identification of connexin43 as a functional target for Wnt signalling

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1741-1749

  Van der Heyden, Marcel A G ^a   Rook, Martin B ^b   Hermans, Monique M P ^b   Rijksen, Gert ^c   Boonstra, Johannes ^b   Deflze, Libert H K ^a   Destrée, Olivier H J ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connexin; PC12; Transcriptional regulation; Wnt

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, EMBRYONAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; PC12 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031849995     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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