Relationship of gap junction formation to phosphorylation of connexin43 in mouse preimplantation embryos

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 393-398

  Ogawa, Hidehiko ^a,d   Oyamada, Masahito ^b,c   Mori, Tadashi ^a   Mori, Michio ^b   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

dbcAMP; Gap junction protein; Mouse embryos; Phosphorylation; TPA

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUCLADESINE; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOSPHORYLATION; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034098491     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(200004)55:4<393::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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