Induction of gap junctional intercellular communication, connexin43 expression, and subsequent differentiation in human fetal neuronal cells by stimulation of the cyclic AMP pathway

Neuroscience

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 859-868

  Dowling Warriner, C V ^a   Trosko, J E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin43; Differentiation; Gap junctional intercellular communication; Neural progenitor cells

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CYCLIC AMP; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

1-METHYL-3-ISOBUTYLXANTHINE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CONNEXIN 43; CYCLIC AMP; FETUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FORSKOLIN; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0032803362     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00411-X     Document Type: Article

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