A novel junction-like membrane complex in the optic nerve astrocyte of the Japanese macaque with a possible relation to a potassium ion channel

Anatomical Record

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 465-474

  Yakushigawa, Hiroshi ^a   Tokunaga, Yoshimitsu ^a   Inanobe, Atsushi ^b,c   Kani, Kazutaka ^a   Kurachi, Yoshihisa ^b,c   Maeda, Toshihiro ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Cell membrane; Electron microscopy; Freeze fracturing; Immunohistochemistry; Macaca; Optic nerve; Potassium channels

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL JUNCTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE FRACTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CONNEXIN 43; FREEZE FRACTURING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MACACA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; OPTIC NERVE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 0031916558     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199804)250:4<465::AID-AR10>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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