Consequences of impaired gap junctional communication in glial cells

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 468, Issue , 2000, Pages 373-381

  Naus, C C G ^a   Bani Yaghoub, M ^a   Rushlow, W ^a   Bechberger, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID;

ASTROCYTE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAP JUNCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GLIA CELL; GLIOMA CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SECOND MESSENGER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS;

EID: 0034464980     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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