Genetic diseases and gene knockouts reveal diverse connexin functions

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1999, Pages 283-310

  White, Thomas W ^a   Paul, David L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin; Gap junction; Innexin; Intercellular channel

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL GATING; CONGENITAL CATARACT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DISORDER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT GENE; LETHAL MUTANT; LIVER DISEASE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION;

EID: 0033002783     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.61.1.283     Document Type: Review

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