Visualization of gap junction mobility in living cells

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 299, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 347-362

  Windoffer, R ^a   Beile, B ^a   Leibold, A ^a   Thomas, S ^a   Wilhelm, U ^a   Leube, R E ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Connexin; Endocytosis; Green fluorescent protein; Junction; Live cell recording; Movie; Time lapse microscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNEXIN 32; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYSOSOME; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONNEXINS; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ARMORACIA RUSTICANA;

EID: 0034059774     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050033     Document Type: Article

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