Gap-junction-mediated propagation and amplification of cell injury

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 494-500

  Lin, Jane H C ^a   Weigel, Helga ^a   Cotrina, Maria Luisa ^a   Liu, Shujun ^a   Bueno, Earl ^a   Hansen, Anker J ^b   Hansen, Thomas W ^a   Goldman, Steven ^c   Nedergaard, Maiken ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032175749     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/2210     Document Type: Article

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