Temporal expression of neuronal connexins during hippocampal ontogeny

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-71

  Rozental, R ^a,c   Srinivas, M ^a   Gokhan S ^a   Urban, M ^a   Dermietzel, R ^b   Kessler, J A ^a   Spray, D C ^a,c   Mehler, M F ^a,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c Universidade Federal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cx26; Cx33; Cx36; Cx37; Cx40; Cx43; Cx45; Electrotonic synapse; Gap junction; Hippocampus; Neuronal differentiation; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOGENESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0034078857     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(99)00096-X     Document Type: Review

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